The Admiralty Bear. _Ursus eulophus_ (Merriam). Admiralty Islands, Alaska.
The Peninsula Bear. _Ursus merriami_ (Allen). Portage Bay, Alaska Peninsula.
The Rocky Mountain Grizzly. _Ursus horribilis_ (Ord). Rocky Mountains from Mexico to Alaska.
The Sonora Grizzly. _Ursus horribilis horriæus_ (Baird). South-western New Mexico.
The Barren Ground Grizzly. _Ursus richardsoni_ (Mayne Reid). Great Slave Lake regions and Barren Grounds.
The American Black Bear. _Ursus americanus_ (Pallas).
Scornborger’s Black Bear. _Ursus americanus scornborgeri_ (Bangs). Labrador.
Queen Charlotte Islands Black Bear. _Ursus americanus carlottæ_ (Osgood).
Desert Black Bear. _Ursus americanus eremicus_ (Merriam). Coahuila, Mexico.
Florida Black Bear. _Ursus floridanus_ (Merriam).
Louisiana Black Bear. _Ursus luteolus_ (Griffith).
North-western Black Bear. _Ursus altifrontalis_ (Elliot). Clallam County, Washington.
Alberta Black Bear. _Ursus hylodromus_ (Elliot).
The Fighting Bear. _Ursus machetes_ (Elliot). Chihuahua, Mexico.
Emmons’s Glacier Bear. _Ursus emmonsi_ (Dall). Mt. St. Elias region, Alaska.
The Inland White Bear. _Ursus kermodii_ (Hornaday). South-western British Columbia.
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THE American Black Bear, or, as our friends with the big spectacles have named him, _Ursus americanus_ (Pallas), has by very long odds the widest distribution of any North American bear.
The polar bear stays well inside the Arctic Circle. The big brown Alaskan bears are only found in certain localities on or near the north-west coast of the continent. The grizzlies inhabit, or inhabited, the mountain regions of the extreme west from Mexico to Alaska. But the Black Bear is found in the central and northern parts of the United States and in the central and southern parts of Canada from the Atlantic coast to the shore of the Pacific Ocean; and his half brothers, or first cousins, or whatever they are, in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Old Mexico, are so much like him that it takes a specialist and sometimes a post-mortem examination to tell them apart.
I have watched and studied these animals in the open for nearly thirty years, and have played eavesdropper and Peeping Tom times out of number when they were unconscious of my presence; and yet I have had dealings with Black Bears in Texas and Old Mexico whom I would never for a moment have suspected of differing in blood or descent from their northern relatives. However, as we may see from the list already given, the Black Bears of Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, and certain restricted districts in the North, have been technically recognized as entitled to separate classification. And it is just as well to state clearly that in these pages all statements (unless otherwise indicated) refer to the common American Black Bear, and the term Black Bear, when unqualified, refers always to _Ursus americanus_ (Pallas).
