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remains of two species of bears : besides less differences, the coro- 
noidal apophysis is much wider in the more common of the two species 
than in the other, the width being as ten to eight, although the teeth 
are a little larger in the latter species. M. Cuvier was disposed to 
arrange the latter species with the rounded skulls ; but on considering 
that the rounded skulls were most frequent, and this species of jaws 
most rare, he found it difficult to determine on this point. 
No remains of scapulas have been found of sufficient size to allow 
any judgment being formed respecting the animal to which they 
belonged. Two sorts of os humeri have been found, as figured by 
Mr. John Hunter, Trans. Phil. 1794, PI. xx. both belonging to the 
bear, but the one differing from the other in having a hole above the 
internal condyle for the passage of an artery, much resembling, in this 
circumstance, the os humeri of some animals of the genus Felis. Of 
the radius, the ulna, and the bones of the pelvis, nothing particular 
can be ascertained. Two kinds of ossa femoris, both decidedly of the 
genus Bear, but one much shorter and thicker than the other, have 
been found. A tibia has also been found, which, from its being 
thicker in proportion to that of the common bear, M. Cuvier is dis- 
posed to place with the preceding os femoris. With this bone he also 
places part of a fibula which is in the Museum. 
Like the present bears, and several of the carnivorous animals, the 
bears of the caverns have seven carpal bones ; and which, with the 
metacarpal bones, differ very triflingly from the bones of the existing 
bears. A similar agreement with those of the existing bears is ob- 
servable in the tarsal and metatarsal bones. 
Numerous vertebrae are found in these caverns, the greatest number 
of which appear to agree very closely with those of the existing bears. 
The last dorsal vertebra was, however, found under two distinct 
forms : one resembling that of the brown bear, and the other ap- 
proaching to that of the polar bear, especially as the posterior super- 
numerary apophyses were not so long as the articular ones. Here 
