_Ursus americanus altifrontalis_ Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zoöl., 30:232, March 2, 1928. _Type._--Obtained at Lake Crescent, Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington, by D. G. Elliot in 1898; type in Field Museum of Natural History. _Racial characters._--Color dark, almost always black instead of brown; skull wide, high and heavy; molar teeth wide and heavy. _Distribution._--From the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains westward to the Pacific. Marginal occurrences are Chelan (W.W.D.) and Signal Peak (Taylor and Shaw, 1929: 10). =Ursus americanus cinnamomum= Audubon and Bachman _Ursus americanus var. cinnamomum_ Audubon and Bachman, Quadrupeds of North America, 3:125, 1854. _Euarctos cinnamomum_ Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 128:91, April 29, 1924. _Euarctos americanus cinnamomum_ Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 55:319, August 29, 1936. _Ursus americanus cinnamomum_ Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zoöl., 30:232, March 2, 1928. _Type._--Obtained near the mouth of Jim Ford Creek, Lower Clearwater River, western Idaho (Bailey, 1936: 319) by Lewis and Clark on May 31, 1806. _Racial characters._--Resembling _altifrontalis_ but skull and molar teeth narrower; color even in black phase paler and browner; brown and black phases of approximately equal incidence. _Distribution._--Northeastern Washington and the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington, occurring westward as far as Republic (Taylor and Shaw, 1929: 10). =Ursus chelan= Merriam Grizzly bear _Ursus chelan_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 29:136, September 6, 1916. _Type._--Obtained in Township 30 N. Range 16 E. Willamette Meridian, Wenatchee National Forest, Chelan County, Washington, by D. S. Rice on September 1, 1913; type in United States National Museum. _Measurements._--The skull of the type, an old male, measures: basal length 314; occipito-nasal length 323; palatal length 170; zygomatic breadth 225; interorbital breadth 86. _Distribution._--Probably once from the Stevens Pass area north to British Columbia. Possibly still remaining in the mountains between Mount Baker and Lake Chelan. _Remarks._--Grizzly bears occurred in the lowlands of Oregon (Bailey, 1936: 324) and California (Grinnell, Dixon and Linsdale, 1937: 67) but there is no record of their ever having occurred in the lowlands of western Washington. Bears of the genus _Ursus_ range over Europe, Asia and North America. No less than 75 kinds of grizzly and big brown bears are recognized for North America by Merriam (1918). They are closely related to the brown bears of Asia. The 13 kinds of black bears of North America are now thought to belong to but one species, namely _americanus_, and have no close relatives in Eurasia.