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Stockh. 1843, p. 704; Isis, 1845, s. 459) some observations concerning thechanges which occur in the symphisis pubis of the Hedgehog during preg-nancy and parturition.
Uesina. —Bazin has, in the c Actes de la Soc. Linn, deBordeaux/ xiii, p. 143, avec fig., given an account of anAlbino variety of the Ursus arctos, from the Pyrenees .
A female was killed, 1841, in the mountains about Bagneres de Luckon,being 1 m. 27 in length, of a yellowish white or creamy colour, dark underthe neck and on the lower jar, the hue extending from thence to the anteriorpart of the shoulders and upon the cheeks, and fading away at the eyes.External and anterior side of the arm and fore-arm yellow ; hind legsinternally almost isabel, or cream-coloured, externally dirty white; bellystudded with several irregular spots of a tolerably dark yellowish white hue;eyes red, claws yellowish white.
Along with the above we have Professor Owen (Brit. Eossil Mammalia,p. 77) and Pictet (Palseontologie, 1, p. 146) expressing themselves evennow against Blainville’s view of Ursus arctos being only an abortive or arresteddescendant of E. spelteus. The Professor would appear likewise to be unac-quainted with my works upon the Cave-bears and upon the MuggendorfianCave-animals generally, although they have been inserted in tins Archiveand in the ‘ Isis.’
Concerning the Bears that occur upon the Japanese islands, Temminekhas, in the ‘Bauna Japonica,’ p. 29, communicated up to the present timemore precise information. He reckons 3 species. (1) Ursus ferocc, darkbrown, occasionally blackish, in some individuals the colour being brighterupon the head and fore-quarters, in others interrupted by a yellowish bandproceeding from the shoulders, as in the Siberian Bears with a neck-collar ; another variety is more of a fallow or gray tint. Hitherto wehave obtained only skins of the above, without the skull and foot-bones, sothat the determination of the species still does not appear to me quitesecure; one of these skins had a length of about eight feet. In the moun-tainous districts of the islands Jozo and Karafto, it attacks horses, deerand even man; but is frequently too kept in confinement, in order to fattenand then eat it. (2) U. tibetams, frequently occurs in the mountainousparts of the Japanese islands, and usually subsists upon vegetable sub-stances ; Siebold saw also an Albino of this species. (3) U. maritimus : inthe year 1690 several Polar or Ice bears (?) are said to have been seen upon