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SEA-BEARS. 



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One of the most peculiar traits of these animals is that 

 during their stay on lant they unceasingly use their hind-paws 

 as fans, and sometimes also as parasols. Such fans mav on a 



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SEA-BEARS. 



Male, Female, and Young. 

 (From a water-colour i^aintiug by H. W. Elliott.) 



warm day be in motion at the same time by the hundred 

 thousand at a " rookery." 



In the middle of June the females come up from the sea , At 

 the water's edge they are received in a very accommodating way by 



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