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6. Selenarctos formosanus (Swinhoe) 
Ursus formosanus Swinhoe, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 380. 
Ursus torquatus formosanus (Sw.) Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1909, pp. 
607-610, fig. p. 608, c. 
Type locality: — Formosa. 
This species was first named by Swinhoe, who however gave very 
meagre details. In 1909 Lydekker gave a figure of a skull of the 
Formosan black bear, and confirmed Swinhoe’s diagnosis of it as dis- 
tinct from any of the other known forms. Its chief characteristics are 
its shorter and broader skull, and its broad and short last molar. It 
thus approaches to the skull in Sikawei Museum that was bought from 
a pedlar in Shanghai, and to the Himalayan form. Its skull is, how- 
ever, proportionately shorter and wider than any other known species. 
Lydekker gives the following measurements: Basal length, 9.1 inches; 
maximum zj^gomatic width, 6.95; le'ngth of last 3 upper cheek teeth, 
2.25. 
From the shape and proportions of the skull figured by Lydekker 
there is no doubt about this form belonging to the genus Selenarctos. 
Swinhoe gave its hair as stiff, and black, and remarked on the pres- 
ence of a white crescent. 
We thus have six recognizable species of Selenarctos, and apparently 
three more unidentified forms, namely: (1) the black bear from Che- 
kiang and Fukien in south-eastern China, a stuffed specimen of which 
exists in the museum of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society, Shanghai, the skull unfortunately being inside the specimen, 
(2) the black bear from Hainan Island, which has been confused with 
S. thibetanus (or torquatus), and (3) the black bear that inhabits (but 
is rapidly becoming extinct) the forested and mountainous country 
to the north-east of Peking in Chihli, known as the Tung Ling and 
Imperial Hunting Grounds. 
II. Ursus Linnseus, 1758 
Syst. Nat., Ed. X, I, p. Jft , 1758. 
Type: — Ursus arctos Linnseus. (Scandinavia.) 
The bears that belong to what Heude called the Ursarctos group, 
must be placed in the genus Ursus, of which Ursus arctos of Scandinavia 
is the type. 
These have longer skulls than the members of the Selenarctos group, 
do not have a pronouncedly high forehead, as in Spelceus group, and. 
