^f(’rrialu—Dcscviytinuft of Nnv Hears from JSordi A meriea 
171 ) 
!^ize inediuiu; skull short and broad; claws short ami 
strongly curved for a drizzly (lon>>;est hO luni. — tips worn hj' di^^'inji), 
dark, marked with yellowish on tips and siiles. Uppcu' molars laij'e. 
Total lein^th hefon' skinninir ISdO mm.; hind foot '2i>7 mm.; estimated 
h(‘i^ht at shoulder :>i) inches (hhO mm.). 
Color.—(iewvA\ ‘ifonml color dark brown, ^n-izzled and washed with 
))al(' tippl'd hairs. Muzzle pale brown, heitominj*- darker between eyes 
and oi\ sides of face; top of head in front of ears washed with yellowish 
brown—almost forming a golden brown hand between the darker nngriz- 
zled frontal region and the more whitish color ol the neck , geneial ground 
color of body very dark, bountifully overlaid on neck and hack by pale 
hnll'y-tipped hairs which give a whitish cast to the neck; ears dark; legs 
and feet blackish; un.ler parts dark brown; hairs on sides of throat long 
and grizzly. 
Cranial characters .—Size medium; skull short, broad, highly arched, 
strongly dished, with abruptly ascending frontals and large molar teeth. 
Muzzle short, broad, broadening and strongly ascending posteriorly; 
nasals strongly upturned posteriorly; frontal shield rather broad, rising 
abruptly and swollen in front of and above orbits, sulcate medially, short- 
pointed, the point ending in sagittal crest about MO mm. anterior to 
fronto-parietal suture; postorbital processes large, broad, subtriangular, 
and decnrved, braincase long for size of skull; zygomata rather broadly 
spreading and slightly outhowed; palate and postpalatal shelf broad. 
Molars large and broad. 
^fale adult stihemensis compared udth male adult ahsarohus (apparently 
its nearest relative): size nearly the same though ahsarohus appears the 
larger; basal length and frontal breadth apiiroximately same, but occipito- 
nasal length much greater in ahsarohus. in stikeenensis rostrum lower, 
flatter, and more horizontal; frontal shield and posterior part of nasals 
rising inuch more abruptly ; frontals much more swollen in front of orbits; 
point of shield much shorter (ending midway between plane of postor¬ 
bitals and fronto-parietal suture, while in ahsarohus it reaches posteriorly 
to suture); inion short; ])alate broader; lower jaw shorter; coronoid 
lower. ^ . * 
Ursus nortoni * sp. nov. 
YVpcNo 17S7(i;5 9 adult, T. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collec¬ 
tion. From Vakiitat, Alaska. May^ lhlO. G. Freilerick Norton. Origi¬ 
nal No. Ad (mother of c? cub No. 1/<S7(U). 
C'/mracfers. — Belongs to the Grizzly group; related to sttheenensis. 
Size medium; coloration pale; skull broad ami massive. 
Cranial characters.— large, broad, with moderately spreading 
rounded zygomata, broadly expanded squamosal shell, broad Ironta 
,ooion and moderately dished fronto-nasaUirea. Fronta shield broai 
and lomq its lyrate point reaching hack to middle of iiarietals; postorhita 
m-ocesse"'^ large and broadly outspreading; rostrum broad, short, and 
iomewhat depressed; palate and iiostpalatal shelf broad; occiput broad, 
■ ~ Nanicl in honor of U. Kroderiok Norton, who colha.U'.l the Lypn .si.n,.hnon and pre- 
ijenled it to the I’iologiciil Survoi . 
