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There are about a dozen species in all; and the systematic naturalists who do not even admit that number have formed for the bears nearly as many genera as there are species, among which may be mentioned the ridiculous titles of Prochilus, Melursus, Helarctos, and the like.
The first-mentioned is the one which has received most notice both from naturalists and travellers. In redeeming it from this character, other systematists were not content to leave it where it really belongs in the genus ursus but must, forsooth, create a new one for its special accommodation; and it now figures in zoological catalogues as a prochilus the prochilus labiatus!
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