Title: A biological survey of Colorado
Identifier: biologicalsurvey33cary (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Cary, Merritt, 1880-1918; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey
Subjects: Natural history Colorado; Mammals Colorado; Trees Colorado
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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1911.) MAMMALS. 197 The Biolop:i('al Survey lias u series of 10 bear skulls which Mr. Theodore Koosevelt secured on Divide Creek, GaHield County, in April, 1905; also three from Pa«ijosa Sprhif^s, taken in iIk; summer of 1907. Skulls in tlie National Museum were collected by Mr. E. Thomi)soii Seton in the llille re<2jion and near Mount Marvine. Allen found black and cinnamon bears in about equal numbers in Paik County in 1871.^ (Vnies and Yarrow mention a s))ecini('n ()l)tainc(l by Lieut. Marshall at Pafi^osa S))rin(^s in 1874.'^ TJrsus horribilis Ord. Grizzly Bear; Silver-tip. At present <^rizzly bears are uncommon, if not rare, in the nortlicrn mountains, but are occasionally seen in the wilder moun- tains of southern Colorado, particu- larly in the San Juan, La Plata, and San Mio:uel Ran<2;es. Many of the data respecting the griz- zly (or silver-tip, as it is generally known to hunters) within the State, past and present, are unsat- isfactory and some- what conflicting, many of the reports undoubtedly refer- ring to black bears, or more often to large cinnamon bears. In 1905-6 the best informed hunters and trappers in the northern mountains considered the grizzly rare. The reports which follow seem to refer beyond question to this species. A very large old silver-tip was reported in the region about Strawberry and Grand Lakes, in northeastern Middle Park, in 1905. This old fellow is said to have ranged that part of the w^estern slope of the Front Range for a number of years, and is well known to the hunters of the region as Old Saddleback—so called because of an area of light-colored fur
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Fig. 29.—Claw marks of black bear on aspen (Populus trcmuloides), Lone Cone, San Miguel Mountains, at 10,000 feet. 1 Bull. Essex Inst., VI, p. 54, 1874. 2 Explorations W. of 100th Meridian, p. 67, 1875.

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