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Repulse Bay, and to be occasionally met with in the northern 

 part of Prince Begent's Inlet, but says it is unknown to the 

 natives of Boothia.* Dr. Richardson says : " The Walruses were 

 very numerous at Igloolik and on the other parts of the coast 

 to the eastward of the Fury and Hecla's Strait. They are not 

 found, however, at the mouth of the Copper Mine River, 

 although the black whale had been sometimes drifted thither." f 

 He also refers to its being unknown to the Eskimos of the 

 Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers. J ISTo species of Walrus 

 appears to have ever been seen on the Arctic coast of America 

 between the 97th and 158th meridians, or for a distance of 

 about sixty degrees of longitude. 



2. Coast of Europe. On the western shores of Europe the Wal- 

 rus has been taken at no remote date as far south as Scotland, 

 and Mr. Robert Brown, in 1868, stated that he suspected it to 

 be a "not unfrequent visitor " to the less frequented portions 

 of the Scottish shores, he considering it probable that " not a 

 few of the < Sea-horses 7 and < Sea-cows ? which every now and 

 again terrify the fishermen on the shores of the wild western 

 Scottish lochs, and get embalmed among their folk-lore, may 

 be the Walrus." 1 1 Fleming states that one was killed in the 

 Sound of Stockness, on the east coast of Harris, in December, 

 1817, fl while another, according to Macgillivray and others, was 

 killed in Orkney in June, 1825.** Mr. R. Brown adds that one 

 was seen in Orkney in 1857, and another in Nor' Isles about the 

 same time, ft It appears to have never occurred in Iceland, ex- 

 cept as a rare straggler. Many years ago they are said to have 

 lived on the shores of Finmark, and at a much later date to 

 have abounded on some of the islands on^this coast. Mr. Larnont 

 says: " We learn from the voyage of Ohthere, which was per- 

 formed about a thousand years ago, that the Walrus then 

 abounded on the coast of Finmarken itself; they have, however, 

 abandoned that coast for some centuries, although individual 

 stragglers have been occasionally captured there up to within 



* Ross's 2d Voy., App., 1835, p. xxi. 

 t Suppl. Parry's 2d Voy., p. 338. 

 t Zoology of Beechey's Voyage, Mam., 1839, p. 6. 

 $ Hector Boece's History of Scotland, as quoted by British zoologists. 

 || Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 433. 

 II British Animals, p. 19. 



**Ediub. New Phil. Jonrn., vol. ii, p. 389; British Quad., Jard. Nat. 

 Libr., Mam., vol. vii, p. 223. See also Bell, Hamilton, etc., 1. c. 

 ttProc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 433. 



