URSINB SEAL. 



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133.— Ursine Seal. 



riated animals, at the imminent peril of his life. They 

 have their war-notes and several other intonations. When 

 amusing- themselves on the shore tliey low like a cow, 

 chirp lil<e a cricket after a victory, and, when they are 

 wounded, cry like a whelp. They swim very swiftly, 

 and are as great a terror to other seals as the sea-lion 

 (^Phoca JKhata^ Gmel.) is to them. 



The skin of the ursine seal is very thick, and from its 

 full deep fur makes excellent winter clothing. Steller 

 speaks of a garment which he made for himself from one, 

 when he was in Behring's Island, with grateful remem- 

 brance. 



Forster's Sea-Lion 



{Platyrhynchus Fosteri) ; Otaria Fosteri, Less., in ' Diet. 

 Class. ;' Phoca Forsteri, Fischer. 



The genus Platyihynchus differs little from Arctoce- 

 phalus, except in a few minor points in the dentition, 



