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Show 420 MR. R. LYDEKKER ON THE [Apr. 6, least as far east as the Caucasus and Urals. Although variable in this respect, this form is not excessively large, and the colour is typically dark brown ; while the skull has a comparatively regular aud low profile and a wide palate. According to Busk, the fourth lower premolar is relatively small, without trace of the posterior inner tubercle. I find, however, that in a young skeleton from Bussia, in the British Museum, this tubercle is very well developed, while there are slight traces of it in a skull from Norway (B.M. no. 62.3.29.8). The front claws are short and curved. 3. URSUS ARCTUS SYRIACUS.-Syrian Brown Bear. Ursus syriacus, Hempr. & Ehrenb., Svmb. Phvs. vol. i. pl. i. (1828) ; Gray, Cat. Carniv. Brit. Mus. p. 224 (I860); Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. Ixxxiv. p. 14 (1881). This form, which inhabits Syria and Palestine, has been very generally identified with the next1, and I am not prepared to say that this may not be correct. Among the few skins that have come under m y notice, I have, however, seen none presenting the creamy tint characteristic of immature examples of the Kashmir form. In the one skull I have seen the profile lacks the deep concavity characteristic of the Kashmir Brown Bear. In the last lower premolar there is a slight trace of the posterior inner tubercle. 4. URSUS ARCTUS ISABELLINUS.-Kashmir Brown Bear. Ursus isabellinus, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 332 (1826): W . L. Sclater, Cat. M a m m . Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 302 (1891). Fig. 2. Profile view of sub-adult skull of Ursus arctus isabellinus. The Bear which inhabits the middle Himalaya, extending from ' See Fitzinger, loc. cit. |
