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URSUS. BEAK 
Generic Character. 
Denies Primores superlores 
sex, intus excavati, alterni. 
Inferiores sex; laterales 
duo longiores, lobati; se- 
cundarii basi interiores. 
Lantarlt solitarii. 
Molares quinque seu sex, pri- 
mo laniariis approximato. 
Lingua Isevis. 
Nasus prommens. 
Memhrana nictitans* 
Front-teeth six both, above and 
below: the two lateral ones 
of the lower jaw longer 
than the rest and lobed; 
with smaller or secondary 
teeth at their internal bases. 
Canine-teeth solitary. 
Grinders five or six on each 
side j the first approximat- 
ed to the canine- teeth. 
Tongue smooth. 
Snout prominent. 
Eyes furnished with a nicti' 
tating membrane. 
Ursus Arctos. Ursusfusco nigncans, cauda abrupta. Lin, Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. p. loo. 
Blackish-brown Bear with abrupt tail. 
Ursus. Ges7i, Quadr. 14. Aldr, dig. 117. 
Ours. Buff. S. p. 2^S. pi. 31, 32. 
Brown Bear. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. i, 
HE common Bear, with some variation as to 
size and colour, is a native of almost all the 
northern parts of Europe and Asia, and is even said 
to be found in some of the Indian islands^ as Cey- 
