CARNIVORA. 
The opposite figures are from drawings by Major 
Smith. Fig. 1 was from a stuffed specimen at Phi- 
ladelphia, and was sent from the Missouri country 
by Messrs. Lewis and Clark. The animal was clumsy 
and compact, and the hairs on the neck and back 
were tipped with white. Fig. 2 is from a specimen 
brought from Hudson’s Bay, which was in the Tower. 
This animal was more slender, and better propor- 
tioned than the other; was very active, and ex- 
ceedingly fierce. It was three feet three inches in 
height at the shoulder, and appeared to be adult. 
The teeth of these specimens were similar, and both 
wanted the usual number of the small cheek-teeth, 
which immediately follow the canine teeth in the 
common species*. 
It seems probable, that the second is the black 
variety particularized by Lewis and Clark : but, as 
difference of colour alone, more especially in the 
Polar animals, is certainly insufficient to determine 
distinctness of species, till more decided and ana- 
tomical distinctions are pointed out, the most pro- 
bable conclusion seems to be, that there is only one 
species of the ferocious bear, which branches into 
two principal varieties, each again subject to differ in 
colour; though Major Smith has aptly applied the 
epithet candescens to all of them ; for, let the colour 
of the animal be what it may, there is always observed 
* As these teeth are frequently deciduous in the common species, 
the nonexistence of them in these two specimens does not determine 
a distinctive character. 
