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Title: Animal products;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Simmonds, Peter Lund, 1814-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animal products. (from old catalog) Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Pub. by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ut nausea. Our arctic seamen relish the pawsof the bear, and the Esquimaux prefer its flesh at all times to thatof the seal. Instances are recorded of the liver of the polar bearhaving poisoned people. The Brown Bear (Ursus arctos\ although at one time com-mon in many parts of Europe, is now restricted to a few se-cluded valleys in the Alps, Pyrenees, and mountains of Norwayand Lapland. The dark-coloured race, long considered a distinctspecies, under the name of the European black bear, togetherwith the barren-ground bear of North America, are now includedamong the varieties of Ursus arctos. They are hunted for their THE ISABELLA BEAR. 2 5S skin and fat. The distribution of the brown bear is more exten-sive than any of the family. In Asia it inhabits Siberia and theAltai as far westward as Japan; when the Altai is crossed, andthe great Himalayan chain examined, there is found anotherbrown bear, which has been named the Isabella bear, from theprevailing light fulvous colour of the fur.
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KILLING A POLAR BEAR. As to the distinction between the Ursus arctos and the Isabellacoloured bear of the Himalaya, the difference rests only in thecolouring of the tips of the hair, and that is not always a surecriterion. No doubt the majority of the Isabella bears have thetips of the hairs brownish white, but brown is the fundamentalcolour. Some individuals, especially old males, are almostmarone, whilst others vary from brown to brownish yellow,.and are a dirty white ; hence travellers speak of the Whiteand Brown bears of Cashmere : it is evident, however, that 254 THE THIBET BEAR. neither age nor sex determines the colour with any degree ofaccuracy. The Isabella bear is found on the mountains of Armenia, whereit has long passed under the name of the Syrian bear, and isperhaps the animal referred to in the Bible. It is not rare onthe Caucasus and high ranges of Persia, ArTghanistan, and Hima-laya, at least as far eastwards as Nepaul and probably muchfarther. The winters coat is she

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