'B*EA2L. 
found in Great Taitary, in Muscovy, in Li- 
thuania, and in other northern regions. They 
are not rendered white during winter, by the 
rigour of the climate, like the Ermines or the 
Hares ; hut are brought forth white, and re- 
main so in all seasons. They ought, there- 
fore, to he considered as a fourth species; if 
we did not also find Bears with their hair con- 
sisting of a mixture of brown and white, 
which indicates an intermediate race between 
the White Land Bear and the Brown or Black 
Bear : consequently, the White Land Bear is 
only a variety of one or other of these spe- 
cies. The Brown Bear is very common in 
the Alps, hut the- Black Bear is extremely 
rare. The latter, on the contrary, abounds in 
the forests of the northern regions of Europe 
and America. The Brown Bear is furious, 
and carnivorous 5 but the Black Bear is only 
wild, and uniformly refuses to eat flesh. Un- 
der the denomination of the Brown Bears," 
-adds Buffon, 44 I comprehend those which 
arc Brown, Yellow, Red, or Reddish; and, 
-under Black, all the shades of that colour." 
These distinctions of Buffon, however in- 
genious, 
