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CARNIVORA. 
principal mode of attack and defence is by seizing 
their enemy, and squeezing it between the arms and 
breast, so as to deprive it of life. They will not 
attack mankind, unless much pressed by hunger, in 
which state they are said to associate in search of 
animal food. 
Major Smith made a drawing of an European bear 
at Dresden, which appears to be distinct. It was 
about four feet in height at the shoulders ; the phy- 
siognomy was different from the common sort ; the 
ears were small and round ; the facial line was much 
depressed at the junction of the nasal and frontal 
bones ; the colour was a fiery yellow on the head 
and back, passing into chestnut and red on the sides 
and hams ; the belly and paws were brown, and there 
was a dark streak upon the nose, spreading into 
branches toward the orbits. The form of the animal 
was extremely heavy. 
The Major also drew from a specimen at Buda in 
Hungary, which appeared some time ago on the 
shores of the Danube, in Upper Hungary. As he 
was destructive to the cattle in no common degree, 
every effort was made to take or destroy him : he 
received many shots, and when pressed, always swam 
across the Danube, and resumed his depredations 
on the other side till again forced to swim back. 
In this manner he was fairly hunted into Lower 
Hungary, having travelled much of his way by water. 
From Semlin he was chased beyond Belgrade ; but 
the Turkish peasantry drove him back, and it was 
