MAMMAL -URS1DAE-URSUS MARITIMUS. 
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URSUS MARITIMUS. 
Polar Bear. 
Ursws maritimus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 70. (Under head of U. arctos.) 
E. Sabine, App. Parry’s First Voyage, 1824, 183. 
Rich. App. Parry’s Second Voyage, 1825, 288.— Ib. F. E. A. I, 1829, 30. 
Harlan, F. A. 1825, 51. 
Add. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 281; pi. xci. 
Ursus marinus, “ Pall. Itinerary.”— 1b. Spicilegia Zoologia, XIV, 1780, p. 1, tab. i. 
Ear scarcely as long as the tail. Thumb much shorter than the outer toe. Crown, forehead, and top of the muzzle lie in 
one plane. Color snow white. 
I introduce this species merely for the sake of completing the record of American hears, 
although no specimens were collected by any of the expeditions. For a description of the skull, 
see its comparison with the skull of Ursus liorribilis , as above. 1 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue 
number. 
Locality. 
Whence obtained. 
Nature of specimen. 
904 
903 
North Greenland_..._ 
S. Steenberg_ 
Skull. 
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1 There is still another North American bear, if it be really different from the grizzly, namely, that described as Ursus arctos, 
or Barren Ground bear, by Richardson, in Fauna Boreali-Americana. Without any specimens or information other than what 
is detailed in Richardson, I have nothing to say on the subject. 
