Till-: SAM l.loSS OF CM.II-OnM \ 



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Ollcc 1 Watclicti till' I'tirillillLT nf tlir 

 liart'IMS of Slc||c|-"> >r;| Ijitil ;ll Aflo 



Nui'vo Islaml. a littlf I'ocky i>laiiil 

 Iviiii: nearly a iiiilr oil" -linic on ihc 

 niidillr ( 'ali toi-nia coa."-!. Tlii- i-ooi<rrv 

 ht'n> is the Ix'st situatcil for 

 (•'hscrvation ol' any on ilic 

 roast. 'I'lic irtivcrnnicnl lia> 

 a four siiriial and li<rlil >ta- 

 I ion on the i>lantl. and tlir 

 liirlit k('t'|u'r's lionu' makes 

 a convenient place to stay 

 when one is t'orhinate 

 enoni:li lo have him for a 

 friend. 1 was snre of a wel- 

 come, for I had ]tassed some 

 time there the year before, 

 duriiii: the last of the 

 lireedinir .reason. A coii|ili' 

 oi hnndred yards oil' onr 

 end of the island are two 

 smaller islands of hare rock. 

 On one of these is the rook- 

 ery. One may sec nearly 

 the whole of it from the 

 lariTi-r island, or one may 

 row over to it and find 

 many convenient hiding; 

 ))laces from which to watch 

 the animals at close ran;.;!'. 

 In the latter case it will he 

 nee(\<sarY for the observer 

 to for^jet that he has a sense 

 of smell. 



1 arrived at the rookery 

 on ^lay 30 and fonnd it in 

 [lossession of a year-old 

 ]uip, bnt I was told that a 

 few days before a band of 

 fifteen or twenty cows had 

 'iiauled ont." to n.se a seal- 

 er's term, for a few hmirs. 

 The ne.xt day small hands 

 of cows landed at different 

 times, bnt no l)nll.s ap- 

 peared nntil evcnino;, when 

 a larfje one came and 

 started a nudens of a 

 harem of three or fonr 

 cows. By morn in;,' this had 

 increased to r'i-_rh(ccn cows. 



Two other liull,- had ai'i'ivcd. hut their 

 linic wa- -o occupied in i\cc|iinL: oiii of 

 the way of the first hull, who was a hii: 

 halt Ic-scai'rcd old veteran, and drivim: 

 a\\a\ l>aclic|or>. who pcr>i>lc(| in land- 



h'liiiii s/nriiiiiiiM in lln .\ iin ririiu .\[ iiMtinii 



An upper view of the .skull.s of the female of both species re- 

 veals u marked difference in shape of the region between the 



Th. 



i- r»i,i Mp.riinriiM III t li , .\ ,„. r irini .\f iim 



under side of the same skulls shows clearly the gap be- 



tween the posterior upper molars of the Steller's sea lion and the 

 regularit.v of spacing of the rorresponding teeth of the California 



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