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Title: The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915
Subjects: Mammals Mammals Mammals
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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able foods are eaten bythem, and if the nest of the honey-bee can be discovered, these beastsconsider themselves in great luck, and greedily devour the sweet storeof which they are extremely fond, bearing the numerous stingsreceived from the angry insects with fortitude, although their mani-festations of disgust and rage at the punishment received may bemany and violent. Beside the Polar Bear in the Arctic region, thereare in North America, the Alaskan Brown Bear, the Grizzly, theCinnamon or Black Bears, and the Glacier Bear, with sundry racesof these of more or less questionable distinctive value. Within thelimits of territory comprised in this work, two of the Bears above men-tioned are found, the Black or Cinnamon, and the Grizzly, and theseare separated from their relatives of the more northern portion ofthe continent on account of some variation in the skulls. Whereverfound, the habits of North American Bears are practically the same. FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. PLATE XLVII, ZOOLOGY.
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Ursus HORRI/EUS.No. 9S()4 p-Jeld Columbian Mus. Coll. 14 nat. size. URSID/E. URSINiE. URSUS. 479 and from spring to late autumn they constantly roam the woods andopen places searching for food. Some Grizzlies are said to reach aweight of 1,000 to 1,200 pounds, but such enormous beasts are rare,the majority being very much smaller. It is not very unusual, how-ever, to find one of these animals that will measure eight feet, andeven more, when standing erect upon its hind legs. In Mexico Bearsare found in the mountain ranges, sometimes at high altitudes. Fam. IV. Ilrsiclse. Bears. True molars with broad, fiat tubercular crowns; fourth upperpremolars with no inner root; bullae scarcely inflated; soles naked;feet plantigrade. Sub fam. I. Ursinee. 90. Ursus. iS=C.S;P.:E:;M.g^ = 4.. C. H. Merriam. Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears,Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896, p. 65. Ursus Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 47; i, 1766, p. 6g. Type Ursiisarctiis Linnaeus. Thalassarctos! Gray, Ann. of Ph

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