104 ODOB^NUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



by a boat's crew, one of the poor animals having been already 

 harpooned. Another plate, facing page 72, entitled " Walruses 

 on the Ice," represents a herd on the ice in various attitudes, 

 most, but not all, of which have the hind feet extended back- 

 ward, in the manner of Seals. In his later work, " Yachting in 

 the Arctic Seas/ 7 he has given (plate opposite p. 56) a very fine 

 side-view of the head, and on p. 221 a large vignette figure of 

 the head seen in front. 



Mr. Brown also refers to " the excellent figures of the Wal- 

 rus taken by the artist of the Swedish Expedition," namely, a 

 "chromolithograph and head, both drawn by Heir von Yhlen," 

 " under the direction of such well-informed naturalists as Torell, 

 Malmgren, Smith, Goes, Blomstrand, &c.," in which "the fore 

 flippers are represented as rather doubled back, and the hind 

 flippers extended. 77 This work (" Svenska Expeditioner til 

 Spetsbergen ar 1861, pp. 168-182, pi. facing p. 169, and head 

 p. 308 77 ) I have been unable to see, but presume the figures are 

 the same as those in the German translation of this work, 

 which appeared in 1869. * The frontispiece of this work repre- 

 sents a group of four old Walruses resting on the ice, with a 

 fifth in the water in the foreground. A woodcut of the head of 

 a young, or more probably a female, is given on p. 132, and on 

 p. 136 a hunting-scene. 



In 1867 appeared figures of the second living specimen 

 received at the Zoological Society 7 s Gardens. According to Dr. 

 Muriet these were published in " The Field, 77 " Land and Water," 

 " Illustrated London News," and elsewhere. The figure origi- 

 nally appearing in " The Field " (drawn by Mr. Wood) is repub- 

 lished by Dr. Murie in his " Memoir on the Anatomy of the 

 Walrus " { from the original wood-block. This is a rather more 

 robust figure than those published by Wolf and Sclater, but is 

 likewise tuskless (being also that of a very young animal), and 

 shows similarly the long, descending, curved mystacial bris- 

 tles. 



In 1870, Dr. Gilpin figured a male Walrus killed in March, 

 1869, in the Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador. In this figure, the 

 general form of the body is very well represented, but the hind 



* Die schwedischen Expeditionen nach Spitsbergen und Bitren-Eiland, 

 ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1861, 1864 und 1868, etc. (for full transcript of 

 the titlepage see antea, p. 92). 



t Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., vol. vii, 1872, p. 413. 



t Loc. cit., p. 416. 



