DCHP-3

cinnamon bear

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a subspecies of the black bear. See 1964 quote.

Quotations

1821
Individuals vary in colour from black to different shades of brown, and are known to the traders under the different names of Black, Brown, Cinnamon, and Grey Bears.
1956
Black Bear . . . Black or dark brown is the usual colour, but there is a rarer colour phase known as the "cinnamon bear," which is light buff.
1964
[The] cinnamon bear of the interior of British Columbia is another geographic race of the same species [Ursus americanus], one of its subspecific characteristics is the occurrence of a brown colour phase.