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The fore foot, however, he says, is wrongly represented. Von 

 Baer criticises the form of the nose, the front part of which he 

 says is too prominent, and has the angles or wings (Nasenfliigel) 

 too distinct, and adds that the coloring is also faulty. But von 

 Baer's comparison is made with the young specimen of the At- 



lantic Walrus he observed in St. Petersburg, and perhaps indi- 

 cates the differences between the two species, rather than any 

 incorrectness in Pallas's drawings. Yon Baer also refers to the 

 figures in Cook's "Last Voyage" as being somewhat exagger- 



