DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

 U 8. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES 



F. V. HAYDEN, GEOLOGIST-DJ-CHABQE 



MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS No. 12 



HISTORY 



OF 



NORTH ^ ME RIO A. 1ST 



PINNIPEDS 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE 



WALRUSES, SEA-LIONS, SEA-BEARS 



AND 



SEALS 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA. 



BY JOEL ASAPH ALLEN 



Assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge 

 Special Collaborator of the Survey 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 



1880 



