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THE CARNIVORES 



cannot, however, make use of them in the same free manner. While the fur-seal 

 can be driven five or six miles in twenty-four hours, the sea-lion can barely go two, 

 the conditions of weather and roadway being the same. The sea-lions balance and 

 swing their heavy necks to and fro, with every elevation of their hind-quarters, 

 which they seldom raise from the ground, drawing them up after the fore-feet with 

 a slide over the grass, sand, rock, etc., as the case may be; and pausing frequently 

 to take a sullen and ferocious survey of the field and the drivers. It further appears 

 from the same account that the males are less systematic and exacting in the forma- 



THE NORTHERN SEA-WON. 

 (One-thirtieth natural size.) 



tion and protection of their parties of females than is the case with the northern sea- 

 bear; and they are not known to travel so far inland. Moreover, these seals are very 

 shy and wary, and never allow their haunts to be visited by man without making a 

 sudden rush to the sea. The males leave the sea and take up their stations on the 

 narrow belts of ground, which they prefer, early in May, while the females follow 

 them after an interval of three or four weeks, thus arriving during the first weeks in 

 June. Usually each male during the breeding season is accompanied by from ten to 

 fifteen females. The latter are allowed to move freely from place to place; and are 



