The bear of the forest border.

*The book calls this animal both brown bear and black bear, and they are one species here. It never sets the two words on the same page, never contrasts them in a fauna list or a price list, and gives them one account between them. The clearest witness is the bear ceremonial: 2-051 has the Lamut and Yukaghir venerating the black bear, 2-136 has the Lamut boiling the head of the brown bear whole and eating it at one sitting, and these are the same custom among the same people. Chukchee draws no such line either — Keiˊñin* is the word (2-197, 2-245), and it renders "Brown Bear River" at 1-184 and plain "Bear River" at 1-359.

Nor is there a second bear it could be: neither U. americanus, which is North American, nor U. thibetanus, whose range stops far south of the Kolyma, reaches the country described. Dark-coated brown bears do.

A bear the page leaves uncoloured stays on Ursus; the sea bear is Ursus maritimus.