. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. clxxxiv APPENDIX. ' ft I Bitf^. It is mentioned by several authors, but apparently without authority, that the white bear sleeps during the winter in caverns in the ice. Fabricius expressly states the contrary on his own knowledge. The bears which were seen in Melville Island may have passed the winter in the neighbourhood of Barrow's Straits, where it is probable open
. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. clxxxiv APPENDIX. ' ft I Bitf^. It is mentioned by several authors, but apparently without authority, that the white bear sleeps during the winter in caverns in the ice. Fabricius expressly states the contrary on his own knowledge. The bears which were seen in Melville Island may have passed the winter in the neighbourhood of Barrow's Straits, where it is probable open water may be found in the greater part, if not during the whole, of the year. The weight of this species varies exceedingly according to the condition of the individual ; one killed in the former Expedition weighed above 1,10() pounds; whereas another which was obtained in the present Voyage, and which was somewhat larger in all its measurements, weighed not quite 900 pounds. The canine teeth arc solitary in the upper, and approximate to the fon? teeth in the under jaw. On the return of the ships through Barrow's Strait, a bear was met with swimming in the water about mid-way between the shores which were about forty miles apart; no ice was in sight except a small quantity near the land; on the approach of the ships, he appeared alarmed and dived, but rose again speedily; a circumstance which may seem to confirm the remark of Fabricius, ihat well as the Polar bear swims, it is not able to remain long under water. 2, GuLO Luscus. Woolverene. The skull of a woolverene without the lower jaw was picked up in Melville Island, but the living animal was not met with. Since the return of the Expedition, the skull has been identified with one which is in the museum of the College of Surgeons, marked by the late Mr. John Hunter, as belonging to a woolverene fiom Labrador; it has also beei: identified with the skull of a woolverene in the collection of Joshua Brookes, esq., which he was s
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