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ORDERS OE MAMMALS— FLESH-EATERS 
acknowledges no superior. A small Grizzly cub 
which we once set free in a mixed company of 
five or six bears of other species, all of which were 
larger than he, boldly stalked into the centre 
of the group, with an air of conscious superiority 
and courage that was both characteristic and 
amusing. It was the other bears who were 
frightened, not he! 
Specimens of this species are readily recog- 
very gray. The huge brown Grizzly of southern 
California, now very rare, has been described 
as a species distinct from the Rocky Moun- 
tain Silver-Tip. I once measured the dry skin 
of one of these animals, which was 9 feet 4 
inches in length, and 10 feet 3 inches wide 
across the shoulders, between the ends of the 
front claws. 
So far as I am aware, the largest Grizzly Bear 
Copyright, 1902, by F. C. Wolcott. 
A GRIZZLY BEAR AT HOME, 
Photographed in the mountains of western Wyoming, by F. C. Wolcott. The bear was enticed by a bait to 
within thirty feet of the camera, and taken by flashlight. 
nized by their high shoulders, powerful pro- 
portions, grizzly-gray hair, and long curved 
claws. The standard color (in winter) is brown 
next to the skin, the extremities of the hair being 
tipped with silvery gray, from which has come 
the common name of “Silver-Tip.” 
From Mexico and southern California to the 
Yukon valley, especially along the main ranges 
of the Rocky Mountains, the Grizzly shows about 
six different shades of color, from brown to sil- 
ever actually weighed was one that lived and 
died in the Lincoln Park menagerie, Chicago, 
and was weighed by Mr. G. O. Shields. Its 
weight was 1,153 pounds; yet when alive, west- 
ern hunters who saw it frankly admitted that 
it was larger than bears killed by them which 
they “estimated” at 1,800 pounds! Thus far 
the Rocky Mountains have not. produced a wild 
Grizzly actually weighing over 800 pounds, and 
the average weight of the adult Grizzlies killed 
