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place, the tail and fins, exerting their full power in the water, 

 gave such an impetus, that it projected about one-third of the 

 body of the animal on to the floe. It then dug its tusks with 

 such terrific force into the ice that I feared for its brain, and, 

 leech-like, hauled itself forward by the enormous muscular 

 power of the neck, repeating the operation until it was secure. 

 The force with which the tusks were struck into the ice ap- 

 peared not only sufficient to break them, but the concussion 

 was so heavy that I was surprised that any brain could bear 

 it. Can any one then be surprised, when they are informed, 

 that they ' die hard,' even when shot through the brain ? " 



FIGURES OF THE WALRUS. In Lloyd's " Game Birds and 

 Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway, together with an Account 

 of the Seals and Salt- Water Fishes of those Countries" (London, 

 1867) a work which was inaccessible to me till after the Mono- 

 graph of the Walruses was put in type occur two admirable 

 plates, illustrative of the Walrus (facing pp. 444 and 457), the 

 first in tint, the other plain. The colored plate (drawn by 

 Kb'rner) gives a full side view of one individual, and a side and 

 front view respectively of the heads and front parts of two 

 others. The other (drawn by Wolf) represents an encounter 

 between a Walrus and a Polar Bear. In this illustration the 

 Walrus is in the attitude of walking, with the hind feet turned 

 forward and the fore feet bent backward. This is one of the 

 most characteristic and truthful representations I have yet met 

 with. 



In the "German Arctic Expedition, 1869-70", there is also 

 a figure (wood-cut, p. 36'J) of a young Walrus, a side view, 

 with the hind flippers turned backward. 



ODOB^SNUS OBESUS. 



DESTRUCTION OF THE PACIFIC WALRUS. Attention ha 

 already been called (see antea, pp. 185-186) to the rapid diminu- 

 tion of the Pacific Walrus, and to the alarm the natives have 

 of late years felt respecting the disappearance of their chief 

 means of support. The following (here copied from the Boston 

 Daily Advertiser of October 4, 1879) shows how speedily their 

 fears were realized : 



"A letter from E. F. Nye, barque Mt. Wollaston, off Cape 



