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ORDERS OF MAMMALS— FLESH-EATERS , 
very confusing fact about the Black Bear is the 
frequency with which it runs into brown or 
cinnamon colors. Sometimes black and brown 
cubs have been found in the same litter. Very 
curiously, however, this color is found only in 
the Rocky Mountains, and farther west. In its 
brown phase, this animal is called the Cinnamon 
round on the hind quarters, low at the shoulders, 
and also by the fact that in walking it usually 
carries its head low. It is a smaller animal, and 
its claws are short and well adapted to tree-climb- 
ing. It conceals itself from its enemies much 
more successfully than the grizzly, and therefore 
still survives in such places as the forests of the 
GLACIER BEAR. 
Drawn from a specimen in the United States National Museum. 
Bear, and in the Rocky Mountain regions and 
Alaska, brown specimens are almost as numerous 
as black. Sometimes it is difficult to believe 
that both kinds belong to the same species, but 
this seems to be a fact. 
Some grizzlies are very dark brown, but thev 
are never inky black, like the true Black Bear. 
The latter differs in form from the grizzly in 
being highest in the middle of the back, very 
Adirondacks, the Catskills, in West Virginia, 
and the swamps of the southern states. 
When properly treated, small Black Bears are 
good-tempered and playful in captivity; and 
some are easily tamed, and taught to perform 
tricks. Cubs are very interesting when small, 
but by the time they are a year old, they become 
so strong and troublesome, as well as dangerous, 
that private owners nearly always are heartily 
