19 ° 
XX. BEAR. 
138. Black. 
BEAR. 
Six cutting teeth ^ two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes before ^ five behind. 
In walking reds on the hind feet, as far as the heel. 
Urfus Plinii, lib. viii. c. 36. 
Oppian Cyneg. Ill, 139. 
Urfus Gefner quad. 941. Agricola 
An. Subter. 486. Ran fyn. quad. 
171. 
Niedzwiedz RzaazinJkiPolon. 225. 
Bar. Klein, quad. 82. Schnvenclfelt 
Phcrioiroph. 131. Ridinger Wild . 
'Phiere. 31. 
Urfus niger, cauda cortcolore. 
Briffon quad. 187; 
Urfus cauda abrupta. Lin.Jyfi . 
69, Biorn Faun.fuec. No. 19. 
L’Ours de Buff on, viii. 248. tab . 
xxxi. xxxii. 
B. with a long head : final! eyes : fhort ears, round* 
ed at the top : drong, thick, and clumfy limbs : 
very fhort tail: large feet: body covered with very 
long and fhaggy hair, various in its color: the larg¬ 
ed of a rufly brown •, the fmailed of a deep black : 
fome from the confines of Ruffia black, mixed with 
white hairs, called by the Germans , filver-bar : and 
fome (but rarely) are found in $ art ary of a pure 
white. 
Inhabits the N. parts of Europe , and Afia; the 
Alps of Switzerland , and Dauphine; Japan % and 
Ceylon **; IV*. America -f*, and Feru%. The brown 
bears are fometimes carnivorous, and will dedroy 
cattle, and eat carrion; but their general food is 
roots, fruits, and vegetables : will rob the fields of 
peafe; and when they are ripe, pluck great quan- 
* Kampfer hijl. Japan. I. 126. 
Knox hif. Ceylon. 20. 
f Laivfori s Carolina, 116. Catejby Carolina App. xxv. 
f Condamines <voy. 83, 
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