174 ODOB^ENUS OBESUS PACIFIC WALRUS. 



ated in regard to the pliuiip or robust form of the animal, unless, 

 as he says, the Eastern (or Pacific) Walruses are fatter than the 

 Western ones. Pallas, in his "Zoographia Eosso-Asiatica," 

 cites "tab. xxviii. et xxix." of his accompanying "Icones," but 

 the only copy of the "Icones" I have seen contains only one 

 plate, marked as referring to page 269 of his "Zoographia" 

 (the plates are not numbered), where the Walrus is described. 

 This is a most indifferent and badly colored figure of an appar- 

 ently not half-grown animal, in which the tusks are quite short, 

 the mystacial bristles long and thick, the hind feet extended 

 backward, the tail distinct and prominent, as well as the thighs 

 and shoulders, and all the toes of both the fore and hind limbs 

 are provided w T ith long, conspicuous nails. 



The next illustration of the Pacific Walrus appears to have 

 been published by Mr. H. W. Elliott * in 1873. This is the result 

 of a careful study of the animals from life t (on Walrus Island, 

 Alaska, in July, 1872), by an artist not only qualified to do jus- 

 tice to the subject from an artistic point of view, but who brings 

 to his work the trained eye of a naturalist. This illustration 

 represents a group of some ten or more old males quietly repos- 

 ing on the rocks in a variety of postures. The figures in the 

 foreground are expressive and detailed, and afford by far the 

 best representations of an adult Walrus yet extant. The edi- 

 tion of the work embraced only one hundred and twenty-five 

 copies, and can hence, unfortunately, have but a very limited 

 circulation. Two of the figures seen in the foreground, how- 

 ever, have been reproduced by Scammonf from Mr. Elliott's 

 drawings, and give a good idea of the form of these unwieldy 

 creatures. 



I can refer with certainty to no heretofore-published figures 

 of the skull or general anatomy, but some of the representations 

 of the skull already mentioned in the account of the figures of 

 the Atlantic species may possibly represent this species. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. The habitat of the Pacific 

 Walrus embraces a much smaller extent of coast and a much 

 narrower breadth of both latitude and longitude than the Atlan- 

 tic species. It is confined on the one hand to a comparatively 

 small stretch of the northern and eastern coasts of Asia, and to 



* Eeport on the Prybilov Group, or Seal Islands, of Alaska (plates not num- 

 bered and text unpaged). Washington, 1873. 

 tSee beyond, p. 179. 

 t Marine Mammals of the Northwest Coast of North America, 1874, p. 177. 



