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north-east of Peking in Chihli, where high, forested mountains occur. 
Swinhoe reported having seen bears in the hills of the Shantung Prom- 
ontory. Bears undoubtedly occur in western Honan, north-western 
Hupeh, southern Shensi, and southern and western Kansu. They also 
occur in Ssu-chuan (Szechuan), and the maritime provinces of Chekiang 
and Fokien; while they are positively numerous in the forests of Man- 
churia and north-eastern Corea. In the islands off the east Asiatic 
coast they are known from Great Shantar Island, in the Okhotsk Sea, 
near the mouth of the Amur, from Saghalin, Yezo, Japan, Formosa, 
and Hainan Island. 
It is only to be expected that in so large and varied an area a num- 
ber of different species occur. But few specimens, however, have 
reached European or American museums, so that Heude^s collection 
of skulls is of peculiar interest and importance, and their proper exam- 
ination throws much light upon this hitherto imperfectly understood 
subject. 
Representing the Ursidce there are in the Sikawei Museum some 
twelve skulls from various localities as follows: — 
1. A skull labelled Selenarctos leuconyx from the “montagnes de Pao-ki 
(Chensi boreal), 1886, Mars, Mgr. Vidi.” 
N.B. Pao-ki, or Pao-chi, is not in North Shensi, as Heude seems to have sup- 
posed, but lies to the west of Si-an Fu, south of the Wei River, at the foot of the 
great mountain system known as the Tai-pei Shan, in the Ching Ling range, 
where the late Mr. Malcolm P. Anderson discovered the famous Chinese takin 
(Budorcas bedfordi Thos.). 
2. Two skulls from Hakodate (Yeso, Yezo, or Jeso), north Japan. 
3. A skull from Moupin (N. W. Ssii-Chuan and Tibet.) 
4. An immature skull from the Ussuri region. 
5. An immature skull labelled Kamschatka. 
6. A skull labelled ‘‘bought from a pedlar of bric-a-brac in Chang-hai (Shang- 
hai), Malaisie?” with Selenarctos written on the skull itself. 
7. A skull from Vladivostok. 
8. A skull from the “District de Behring.’’ 
9. Three skulls of the Malayan bear, labelled “Helarctos.” 
I could not find the skulls of Heude’s U. melanarctos or Melanarctos 
cavifrons, and so was forced to make use of the figures in his plates for 
these. 
In making my examination of these specimens I had with me three 
skulls and photographs of a fourth for comparison. One of these 
skulls was that of a female black bear from the Himalayas, shot by 
Captain H. L. Haughton of the 36th Sikhs, who gave it to me when 
