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CINNAMON BEAR. 
The Cinnamon Bear, like the common Black Bear, varies greatly in size. 
The dimensions above are unusually large. 
HABITS. 
Lewis and Clark (Expedition, vol. ii. p. 303) mention that one of their 
men purchased a Bear-skin “ of a uniform pale reddish-brown colour, which 
the Indians (Chopunnish) distinguished from every variety of the Grizzly 
Bear : this induced those travellers to inquire more particularly into the 
opinions held by the Indians as to the several species of Bears, and they 
exhibited all the Bear-skins they had killed in that neighbourhood, which 
the Indians immediately classed into two species — the Grizzly Bear, 
including all those with the extremities of the hair of a white or frosty 
colour, under the name of hohhost , and the black skins, those which were 
black with a number of entire white hairs intermixed, or white with a 
white breast, uniform bay, brown, and light reddish-brown, were ranged 
under the name of Yacklcah. These we refer to the Cinnamon and 
other varieties of the Black Bear. Lewis and Clark, however, appear 
not to have considered these Bear-skins as belonging to the Black Bear, 
owing merely to the differences in colour, for they say the common Black 
Bear is “ indeed unknown in that country.” Their account of the fur 
of the brown Bears above mentioned corresponds, however, with the 
description of the Cinnamon Bear, they remarking that the skins of 
the Bears in that region differ from those of the Black Bears “ in 
having much finer, thicker, and longer hair, with a greater proportion 
of fur mixed with it.” Lewis and Clark considered that the Black 
Bear was always black, whereas it varies very considerably : they say 
nothing in regard to the sizes of the various coloured Bears above 
alluded to. 
The Cinnamon Bear has long been known to trappers and fur traders, 
and its skin is much more valuable than that of the Black Bear. We have 
seen in the warehouse of Messrs. P. Chouteau, Jr., and Co., in New York, 
some beautiful skins of this animal, and find that those gentlemen receive 
some every year from their posts near the Rocky Mountains. Being a 
permanent variety, and having longer and finer hair than the common 
Black Bear, we might possibly have elevated it into a distinct species but 
that in every other particular it closely resembles the latter animal. By 
the Indians (according to Sir John Richardson) it is considered to be an 
accidental variety of the Black Bear. 
The Cinnamon Bear, so far as we have been able to ascertain, is never 
found near the sea coast, nor even west of the Ohio valley until you 
