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this species, which may be called the grisly bear, is 
different in size, and still more'in ferocity,' from the 
common black bear of America, the yellow bear of 
the same continent, and the ordinary species of the 
old world, as well as from the white or Polar bear, 
the ursus maritimus of Linnaeus. 
From the observations of these American travellers, 
as well as from the information they derived from 
the Indians, they seem inclined to believe, that there 
are two species of the bear, each of which may be 
called the ursus ferox, and each subject to many 
varieties: the white, or grisly bear, under which 
epithets they seem to include the pure white, the 
deep and the pale grisly red, the grisly dark brown, 
in short, all those they mention with the extremities 
of the hairs of a white or frosty appearance, without 
regard to the ground-colour, forms one distinct spe- 
cies : and that the black and reddish brown, &c. in 
which appear to be included the black, with a few 
entire white hairs intermixed, or with a white breast, 
the uniform bay, the brown, and light reddish brown, 
form a second species, equally distinct from the white, 
or grisly bear, above mentioned, and the common 
black bear of America. This last seems not to be 
met with where the two former species abound ; and 
though in most respects similar, it differs from them 
in having much finer, thicker, and longer hair, with 
a great proportion of fur mixed with it ; and also in 
having a variety of colours, while the common black 
bear has no intermixture or change of colour, but is 
of a uniform black. 
