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and very protuberant. Cook's figure reproduced at p. 41, also that at p. 

 177 of Scammon's book, are those of Odobcejms obesus, and the fine pair of 

 tusks mentioned at p. 40, as now in the Norwich Museum, were probably 

 also obtained from a Pacific Walrus. The figure at p. '^^, and the excellent 

 figure by Wolf, at p. 457 of Lloyd's ' Game-birds and Wild-fowl of Sweden 

 and Norway,' are of the Atlantic Walrus. 



It is much to be regretted that the extinction of this harmless and useful 

 animal is merely a matter of time, and that perhaps before many years have 

 passed it may have censed to exist ; the only hope appears to be that when 

 it has become too scarce to render its pursuit remunerative, a remnant may 

 still be left to continue the species around the far-off and unapproachable 

 islands of the Arctic seas. Even in Franz Josef Land, where, in the summer 

 of 1880, Mr. Leigh-Smith found the Walrus very abundant: it will probably 

 not long remain unmolested, for that gentleman informed Captain Feilden 

 that the Norwegian walrus-hunters, when they heard of his discovery, talked 

 of pushing on for Franz Josef Land next summer, the Spitsbergen walrus- 

 hunting having become very uncertain, from the paucity and wariness of the 

 animals.* 



* 'Some remarks on the Nat. Hist, of Franz Josef Land,' by H. W. Feilden, F.G.S., &c. 

 Paper read before the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Dec. 28, 1880. 



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