Identifier: gameanimalsofind00lyde (find matches)
Title: The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,'
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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A. Campbell from Tibet, and sug-gested that if it proved distinct from the Himalayanblack bear (of which he thought it might be a variety)it should be known as Ursus pruinosus^ from its generallyhoary colour. In 1892 the British (Natural History)Museum received the skin and skull of a small bearfrom Tibet, now exhibited in the mammal gallery,the skull of which showed that the animal had nothingto do with the Himalayan black bear, but was somewhatmore nearly allied to the brown bear, although differ-ing remarkably in colour. The animal (fig. ^^\ whichwas not quite adult at the time of its death, appearedto have been in the winter coat ; the hair on the backand flanks being long, but elsewhere shorter. Althoughall the hair is black at the base, much of it is white inthe terminal half, and the whole colouring is unlikethat of any other bear. On the face and fore-part of 376 The Blue Bear the body white is the prevaihng colour, although inplaces there are some black hairs, which are more
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strongly developed about the forehead, ears, and thefore-part of the nape of the neck. On the hind portionof the nape is a pure white band, or collar, followed by 377 Game Animals of India, etc. a nearly black transversely elliptical patch above theshoulder-blades. Over the rest of the body the hairis mingled black and white, so as to present a bluishtinge ; and the hind-legs are similarly coloured, althoughthe lower halves of the fore-limbs are almost completelyblack. The claws, which are of moderate length, arewhite. The structure of the skeleton seems to indicate thatthis bear is specifically distinct from the brown bear ;but there is some doubt whether it ought to bear thename Ursus pruiftosus, and if this doubt be confirmed, itshould be known as U. lagomyarius—a name applied byColonel Przewalski to a bear from Tibet. Informationis required as to the size attained by this bear, thespecimen in the British Museum being not quitemature. Probably the blue bear is found in the forest

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