344 THE BIRD WATCHER 
ance. Here, no d@@tbt, we have a very sensitive 
apparatus, of great use to the animal. The eyebrows 
seem represented either by three, or four, projecting 
hairs, like those of the whiskers, but shorter. One, 
however, is greatly longer than the other two—or 
three. 
I have now noted all I can about this creature, 
which, I think, must be a female. Can it be the 
unmarked spouse of the great sea-leopard which was 
here once, but which I have never seen again? Both 
were in the pool together, and often quite near to 
one another, and, with the exception of their very 
different skins, looked very much the same animal. 
Though they did not converse, or frolic, with one 
another, yet I thought their very indifference had 
something conjugal about it—-but this may have been 
imagination. But if they are really male and female 
of the same species, it seems curious that there should 
have been so much difference in the time that each 
remained under water. Of this, alone, I can be sure, 
that on one occasion, only, I saw at close quarters, and 
for a long time, a seal twice as large as the common 
one, and with a most magnificent skin, for which, 
and no other, reason I have called it the sea-leopard, 
not at all knowing its proper name. 
The substance on the large seal’s tail, which puzzled 
me, is, I think, connected with the parts adjoining, 
and this makes me conclude it to be a female, and 
that it may lately have had a young one, which, 
however, I have never seen with it. I can make 
