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white; while the upper lip may be whitish, and the nose reddish-biown. Tne 
claws are comparatively short, and black in colour. 
Mr. Blanford gives the weight of full-grown males as varying from 200 to 
250 lbs.; but these weights are probably exceeded in autumn, when the Himala} an 
THE HIMALAYAN BLACK BEAR ( r ^ Bat. size). 
black bear becomes enormously fat, the thickness of the fat on the haunches 
reaching several inches. At such seasons the skin—never very valuable becomes 
utterly useless, from being saturated with oil. The skull of this bear has a 
relatively shorter muzzle and a longer portion behind the eye than that of the 
brown bear; from which it may also be distinguished by the slight developmen 
of the bony ridge along the middle of the brain-case. 
