. British animals extinct within historic times : with some account of British wild white cattle. Extinct mammals; Mammals; Cattle. THE BEAR. ^3 bones from the " refuse heaps" round Colchester made by Dr. Bree, the remains of this animal wei'e found along with those of the Badger, Wolf, Celtic Shorthorn, and Goat. Professor Boyd Dawkins has also met with it in a similar " refuse heap" at Bich- mond, in Yorkshire, which is most probably of Boman CPvAXIUM OF BROWN BEAR, DUMFRIESSHIRE. Dr. J. A. Smith has described and figured''^ the skull of a large Bear which was fo
. British animals extinct within historic times : with some account of British wild white cattle. Extinct mammals; Mammals; Cattle. THE BEAR. ^3 bones from the " refuse heaps" round Colchester made by Dr. Bree, the remains of this animal wei'e found along with those of the Badger, Wolf, Celtic Shorthorn, and Goat. Professor Boyd Dawkins has also met with it in a similar " refuse heap" at Bich- mond, in Yorkshire, which is most probably of Boman CPvAXIUM OF BROWN BEAR, DUMFRIESSHIRE. Dr. J. A. Smith has described and figured''^ the skull of a large Bear which was found with a rib of the same animal in a semi-fossil condition at Shaws, in Dumfriesshire, in peat moss lying on marl, among the most recent of all our formations, associated moreover with tlie Bed-deer, Boe-buck, Urus, and Beindeer ; the skull being that of a large adult animal of great size and strength, f Strange to say, these are the only remains of the Bear which have yet been discovered in Scotland. As regards Ireland, some- doubt seems to exist in the minds of palaeontologists whether any of the ursine remains discovered there are referable to * "Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland," vol. xiii. p. 360 (1879). t For permission to copy the figure of this skull the author is indebted to Dr. J. A. Smith and the Society above referred Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928. Boston : J. R. Osgood
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