his leisure.

The grizzly bear is more like to the brown bear of Europe than to any
other species of the genus. His fur is long and shaggy--not presenting
the even surface which characterises the coat of the black bear. It is
generally of a dark-brown colour--the hair being whitish at the tips,
more especially during the summer season, when it becomes
lighter-coloured. The head is always of a grizzled grey; and it is this
appearance that has obtained for the animal its specific name. There
are brown, reddish-brown, bay or cinnamon--coloured, and white-breasted
varieties of the black bear; but the Indians can distinguish all these
from the true grizzly at a glance. In all of the latter, where there
are white hairs intermingled with the fur, it is always observable that
these odd hairs are white to the roots; whereas the hoary appearance of
the grizzly is caused by only the tips of the hair being white. This
characteristic is constant; and would of itself justify a distinction
being made between the species; but there are many other points of
greater importance. The ears of the grizzly are shorter, more conical,
and set wider apart than in either the _ursus americanus_ or _arctos_.
His claws are white, arched, far longer, and broader than those of the
other bears--their greatest breadth being across their upper surface.
Underneath they are chamfered away to a sharp edge; and projecting far
beyond the hair of the foot, they cut like chisels when the animal
strikes a blow with them. His huge paw is both broader and longer than
that of other bears; while his tail, on the other hand, is short and
inconspicuous--being completely buried under the fur of his buttocks.
So characteristic is this appendage for its extreme shortness, that it
is a standing joke among the Indians--when they have killed a grizzly
bear--to desire any one unacquainted with the animal, to take hold of
its tail!

This appendage in the _ursus americanus_ and _ursus arctos_ is
conspicuous enough; and in the Barren Ground bear is still longer than
in either.

There could be no possibility of mistaking an old or full-grown grizzly
for any of the kindred species. Both in size and aspect he is
different. It is only in the case of young or half-grown specimens
where a mistake of this kind is likely to be made. The enormous size of
the old males--often weighing 1,000 pounds, and quite equalling the
largest individuals of the _ursus maritimus_--rende