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216 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
were obtained f r om that district, while the posts on Upper
Peace R i v e r gave 35 skins of the bears designated above.
The adjoining district of N e w Caledonia, o n the west side
of the Rockies, also contributed a certain number of skins of
this species to each year's London sales. M r . Moberly, who
spent several years i n B r i t i s h Columbia, says that he was
credibly informed that many years ago g r i z z l y bears were
occasionally met w i t h i n the Pas M o u n t a i n of Cumberland
D i s t r i c t and amid the Touchwood H i l l s of M a n i t o b a ; but
such is not the case now. He further says:
There seems to me to be a different species in the Rocky Mountains.
They are much larger than any other grizzly bears seen on
either side. Their colour is lighter and they have a whitish mane,
and are much more ferocious, but not so numerous as the others.
Indian hunters readily attack the latter; few, however, will willingly
venture on a contest with the Mountain King unless the
chances are very favourable.
I t is also on record that the g r i z z l y bear, as well as the
black bear, were not uncommon to the eastward and i n cert
a i n other wooded sections of the R e d R i v e r V a l l e y at the
end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth
century.
RICHARDSON'S BARREN GROUND BEAR— Ursus richardsoni
Swainson.
T h i s bear is not uncommon i n the Barren Grounds of
the Anderson region nor on the polar shores of F r a n k l in
Bay, where, apart f r om a few exported skins, we annually
secured d u r i n g our five years' sojourn at F o r t Anderson one
or two examples, w i t h the skulls and skeletons suitable for
museum purposes. The characteristic disposition of this
rather formidable animal may be f a i r l y judged from the
following experience: In the end of J u l y , 1862, an I n d i an
brought i n the skin, skull, and leg- bones of a medium- sized
male which he shot i n the B a r r e n Grounds north- east of the
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| OCR | 216 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN were obtained f r om that district, while the posts on Upper Peace R i v e r gave 35 skins of the bears designated above. The adjoining district of N e w Caledonia, o n the west side of the Rockies, also contributed a certain number of skins of this species to each year's London sales. M r . Moberly, who spent several years i n B r i t i s h Columbia, says that he was credibly informed that many years ago g r i z z l y bears were occasionally met w i t h i n the Pas M o u n t a i n of Cumberland D i s t r i c t and amid the Touchwood H i l l s of M a n i t o b a ; but such is not the case now. He further says: There seems to me to be a different species in the Rocky Mountains. They are much larger than any other grizzly bears seen on either side. Their colour is lighter and they have a whitish mane, and are much more ferocious, but not so numerous as the others. Indian hunters readily attack the latter; few, however, will willingly venture on a contest with the Mountain King unless the chances are very favourable. I t is also on record that the g r i z z l y bear, as well as the black bear, were not uncommon to the eastward and i n cert a i n other wooded sections of the R e d R i v e r V a l l e y at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. RICHARDSON'S BARREN GROUND BEAR— Ursus richardsoni Swainson. T h i s bear is not uncommon i n the Barren Grounds of the Anderson region nor on the polar shores of F r a n k l in Bay, where, apart f r om a few exported skins, we annually secured d u r i n g our five years' sojourn at F o r t Anderson one or two examples, w i t h the skulls and skeletons suitable for museum purposes. The characteristic disposition of this rather formidable animal may be f a i r l y judged from the following experience: In the end of J u l y , 1862, an I n d i an brought i n the skin, skull, and leg- bones of a medium- sized male which he shot i n the B a r r e n Grounds north- east of the |
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