EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 



729 



following measurements : Male, from the point of the nose to the 

 end of the tail, 2190 mm. (7 feet3 inches, Swedish measure) ; from 

 the point of the nose to the end of the hind extremities 2400 mm. 



FIG. 54. Cystophora cristata. No. 657P, Nat. Mus ; | nat. size. 



(8 Swedish feet) ; length of the fore limb 480 mm.; of the hind 

 limb 420 mm.; of the tail 105 mm. Female, from the point of 

 the nose to the end of the tail, 1980 mm. (<U Swedish feet.*) 

 He gives the length of two young ones a few days old as respect- 

 ively 3 feet 4 inches and 3 feet 9 inches. I find the length of a 

 skeleton of an adult male, from the point of the nose to the end 

 of the tail, to be 1970 mm. 



~* K. Sv. Vet^Akacl. Handl., Band vii, No. 3, 1868, pp. 25, 26. 



