42 SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. 



Attitudes and Figures of the Morse,' in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London for 1853, pp. 1 12-16, reproduces some of the wonderful 

 prints of this animal from old authors, most of which are purely imaginary : 

 fig. 8, p. 37, is copied from one of these. By far the best portrait known, till 

 quite recently, is one published in Amsterdam in 161 3, where an old female 

 and her young one are very accurately depicted : this has been reproduced 

 in Bell's ' British Quadrupeds,' 2nd edition, p. 269. Fig. 10 is copied from 

 the "Sea Horse," in the foreground of Cook's illustration in 'A Voyage to 

 the Pacific,' &c., 1784 edit, vol. ii., p. 446; as will be seen, this figure forms 

 the source from which most subsequent illustrations were derived. Fig. 7 is 

 taken, by kind permission of the late Mr. F. Buckland, from his ' Log-book of 

 a Fisherman and Zoologist,' and represents "Jemmy," the young Walrus, 

 whose brief sojourn in the Zoological Gardens has already been referred to. 

 One of Mr. Wolf's " Zoological Sketches " represents a herd of Walruses in 

 almost every conceivable attitude, and of course beautifully drawn and 

 coloured. 



Some authors recognise two distinct species of Walrus, one of which is 

 said to be confined to the northern shores of the Atlantic, the other to the 

 Pacific Ocean. Mr. Allen, in the 'North American Pinnipeds,' enters at 

 length into the subject, and minutely describes the peculiarities which charac- 

 terise each species. Reviving, after the example of Malmgren, the almost 

 obsolete generic name of Odobcsmis, he describes the Atlantic Walrus under 

 the name O. rosmarus ; the animal found in the Pacific he calls O. obesus. 

 The chief external points of difference in the latter appear to be in the facial 

 outline, the longer and thinner tusks, " generally more convergent, with much 

 greater inward curvature ; the mystacial bristles shorter and smaller, and the 

 muzzle relatively deeper and broader, in corelation with the greater breadth 

 and depth of the skull anteriorly." The eyes are also said to lack the 

 "fiery red " appearance attributed to the Atlantic Walrus, and to be smaller 



