There is every reason to believe them to be of precisely the same species.

Those of different colors are killed together, as in the case of these two, and as we found the white and bay associated together on the Missouri; and some nearly white were seen in this neighborhood by the hunters.

Indeed, it is not common to find any two bears of the same color; and if the difference in color were to constitute a distinction of species, the number would increase to almost twenty.

Soon afterward the hunters killed a female bear with two cubs.

The mother was black, with a considerable intermixture of white hairs and a white spot on the breast.