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I.— GENUS OTARIA. 



This southern representative of the Sea Lions is found on the coasts 

 of South America, and the islands southward as far as Graham's Land. 

 It is very abundant in Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. It 

 seems to perform annual journeys of considerable length to reach its 

 breeding-places, where the females bring forth and nurse their young for 

 some time before leading them into the water. There is only one species 

 of this genus, which is the Phocarctus of Gray. 



The vSea Lion, Otaria jjibata (Plate XXV), attains the length of about 

 nine feet ; its fur generally lies flat, but on the neck and shoulders is 

 developed into a short mane, which gives the creature a leonine aspect. 

 The head is of a yellowish-brown color, the muzzle black, the back 

 yellowish-gray, the hairless paddles look black. The female has a darker 

 color, and is without a mane. 



The Otarige are not pursued so zealously as the rest of the family, 

 their skin being comparatively worthless, and their oil scarcely repaying 

 the cost incurred in taking them. 



II.— GENUS CALLORHINUS. 



The only species of this genus is an animal found on the coasts of 

 Kamtschatka and Behring Straits and California in the North, and of 

 Patagonia in the South, having thus a very wide distribution. It is 

 characterized by an elongate skull, round forehead, and small, narrow 

 fore-flippers. It is a Fur Seal. 



The Northern Sea Bear, Callorhinus ursinus (Plate XXV), is the 

 Otaria ursina of ^tX.&xi, ■sxiA\h^ Arctocephalus Calif or nianus oiOxTiy. It 

 attains the size of eight to nine feet, the females, however, being only half 

 that length. The head is long, the neck short but clearly distinguished 

 from the body, the tail short, the mouth small, the eye large, dark and 

 lively. The coat consists of somewhat stiff hairs, with very soft, delicate 

 silky fur thickly covering the skin. The ground color is a dark brown, 

 sprinkled with white-tipped hairs on the head and neck. The fur is of a 

 reddish tint. Old females are of a silver-gray color, and the young of 

 both sexes have a silvery coat. 

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