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Osgood (1904, p. 47) obtained a skull of this seal from the 

 natives near his camp on Ugagik River. The animal had been 

 killed there on October 3, 1902. 



On May 23, 1936, in Bristol Bay, Captain Sellevold, who was in 

 command of our ship the Brown Bear, reported that he saw a seal 

 that "dived like a fur seal," that is, sliding over head first, with 

 humped back, but that it had a "white streak" on its face. It is 

 true that this is the diving habit of the bearded seal, and the 

 so-called "white streak" may have been the appearance of the long 

 whiskers of this seal. 



A skull is in the National Museum (No. 260363) that was ob- 

 tained from Kodiak Island by Ales Hrdlicka. 



Bill Dirks, Atka Chief, said that in the winter of 1935-36 two 

 strange large seals arrived at Atka Island on ice floes after a 

 period of northerly winds. It is probable that these were bearded 

 seals, for the natives were familiar with their own common harbor 

 seals. 



Family ODOBENIDAE 



Odobenus rosmarus: Walrus 

 Odobenus rosmarus divergens 



Aleut (dialect?) : Amgadakh (Geoghegan) 

 Amagadookh (Wetmore) 



Russian: Morsjec (Elliot) 



The walrus was never known south of Alaska Peninsula or the 

 Aleutian Islands in any numbers. Elliott (1882, p. 98) wrote — 



no walrus are found south of the Aleutian Islands ; still, not more than 

 45 or 50 years ago, small gatherings of these animals were killed here 

 and there on the islands between Kodiak and Oonimak Pass; the greatest 

 aggregate of them, south of Bering straits, will always be found in the 

 estuaries of Bristol bay and on the north side of the peninsula. 



On October 9, 1923, Walker wrote, "One individual was killed 

 in the fall of 1921 or spring of 1922 at the head of Cold Bay 

 (north of Deer Island), on the south side of the Alaska Penin- 

 sula." 



Apparently, there was even a more southerly distribution in 

 primitive times. Golder (1922, p. 292) quotes from the journal 

 of Chirikov's vessel, the St. Paul, under date of July 16, 1741, the 

 locality being near Cape Addington in southeastern Alaska: "Ob- 

 served many ducks and gulls of different species, also sea ani- 

 mals — whales, sea lions and walrus." 



The same author (p. 295) quotes again for July 23, 1741, 

 somewhere in or near Lisianski Strait : "At the eleventh hour a 



