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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
BEAR HUNTING. 
ROM the farthest North to the extreme 
South of the United States, the common 
black Bear of America —Ursus Ameri- 
canus —has his regular ranges and his 
winter dens, and everywhere he is an 
object of keen and eager pursuit, not 
only on account of his mischievous pro¬ 
pensities and the damage he does to the 
farmer, but for the value of his skin, 
and the excellence of his flesh, which resembling pork, with a 
peculiarly wild and perfumed flavor, is esteemed a great deli¬ 
cacy by the epicures of large cities. 
To the Eastward, in Maine, and the northern parts of the 
other New England States, he is still abundant; in New York, 
a few are yet to be found among the wilder hills of Greene and 
Ulster counties—in Rockland and Orange they are probably 
extinct—and thence to the Westward through all the southern 
tier of counties along the Pennsylvania line, and in the northern 
part of that fine sporting state to the great Apalachian chain, 
on which and everywhere to the north of it they are extremely 
plentiful, as well as throughout all the wooded portions of the 
Southern, South-western, and the Western States, even to the 
Pacific Ocean. There is a variety of this animal—not a dis¬ 
tinct species—known in Carolina as the Yellow Bear, and 
another, peculiar to the far North, under the name of the Cinna¬ 
mon Bear, a nomenclature obviously derived from the color of 
their pelage. 
