516 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
may be regarded as races of a single species ; the one restricted to the 
North Atlantic, and the other to the North Pacific. The distribution of 
these animals is by no means of circumpolar extent, the Atlantic walrus 
(O. rosmarus) apparently not ranging on the Asiatic coast east of the 
mouth of the river Lena; while in America walruses do not appear 
to inhabit the vast extent of coast lying between the western shore of 
Hudson Bay and Alaska. The Pacific walrus (O. 7. obesus), which is 
the larger of the two, with longer tusks, always had a restricted. range, 
and is now scarce. Formerly the Atlantic walrus occurred in countless 
thousands, but in accessible situations its numbers have been greatly 
reduced, owing to incessant persecution for the sake of its valuable 
oil and ivory. Between 1870 and 1880 at least 100,000 of these 
animals are estimated to have been slain. 
The largest walrus shot by Mr. W. Livingstone-Learmonth measured 
12 feet 8 inches in length, and the tusks when extracted measured 
25% inches in length and 84 in circumference at the largest part ; but, 
as is the case with those of nearly all old bull walruses, they were much 
broken at the points. 
Tusks. 
Total length Weight Girth Locality Owner 
Shtuck: ght. xirth. uocality. : 
Ibs. oz. 
36 om ane re Sir Thos. Hesketh, Bart. 
-333! 7 104 83 Kamchatka . . G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 
32% ae 83 ? Bethnal Green Museum. 
~32 9 9 bie Pacinicen. ; . Norwich Museum. 
-—314 nine 8 Dor. : . American National Collection. 
308 oe 9h Kamchatka . . Lieut. H. A, Gillett, R.N. 
29 =f 94 Arctic America . C. C. Branch. 
—274 “se 88 Pacific . : BP da atic (Grollbye 
—254 Hes 85 Baffin Bay. . W. Livingstone-Learmonth. 
25 7 10 9 Bering Sea... . Lieut. C. H.G. Benson; R:N: 
Length 
from gum , 
224 73 Spitzbergen . . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
20# 74 Do. , . Sir Victor Brooke’s Collection. 
184 74 Do. : . Arnold Pike. 
918 43 Do. : . <A. Barclay Walker. 
1 25} from gum. 
