Plate XXVI 



Monograph-SEAL-ISLANDS. 



A FUR-SEAL, as drawn by C. Landseer, 1848. 

 'O. nigra— Black Otary." [Eneyelo. Metropolitana, London, 1848, Fig. 2, pi. ix, p. 109 ] 

 I Evidently drawn from an alcoholic or air-dried specimen of an Arctocephahu pup, in its black natal coat.— H. W. E.J 



THE FUR-SEAL. 



(Callorhinus ursinus.) 



[Fac-siniile of a figure engraved on steel from a drawing by Sidney Edwards based upon Steller's description, published as "Phoca ursina " in the 

 Book of Nature, vol. i, pi. 53, Pbila., 1834. This is, in its aggregate, one of the best figures of the Fur-seal given to the world prim to my life-studies on 

 the Pribylov Islands, 1872-76, inclusive— H. W. E.) 





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