340 CALLORHINUS URSINUS NORTHERN FUR SEAL. 



plate in 1874,* representing the skull in profile, from above 

 and from below.t 



In 1870 I gave figures of two adult male skulls (two views 

 of each), of an adult female skull (three views), of a very young 

 skull (three views), and of the scapula, dentition, etc. These, 

 so far as known to me, are the only figures of the skull or other 

 details of structure thus far published. 



In 1874 Captain Scammon gave figures of the animal, f a zinc- 

 ograph of an old male, from a sketch by Mr. Elliott, a wood-cut 

 of the head of a female seen from below (drawn by Elliott ),|| two 

 outline figures representing the female as seen from below and 

 in profile, and two others in outline illustrating "attitudes of 

 the Fur Seals." fl Mr. Elliott, in his first Eeport on the Seal 

 Islands,** in a series of over two dozen large photographic 

 plates (from India ink sketches from nature) has given an ex- 

 haustive presentation of the phases of Fur Seal life so faithfully 

 studied by him at St. Paul's Island. Among these may be 

 mentioned especially those entitled "The East Landing and 

 Black Buttes The beach covered with young Eur Seals' 7 ; 

 " The North Shore of St. Paul's Island " (giving an extensive 

 view of the rookeries); "Lukannon Beach" (Eur Seals playing 

 in the surf, and rookeries in the distance) ; " Old male Fur Seal, 

 or t Seecatch ' " (as he appears at the end of the season after 

 three months of fasting) ; "Eur Seal Harem " (showing the rela- 

 tive size of males, females, and young, various attitudes, posi- 

 tions, etc.) ; <Fur Seal males, waiting for their 'harems'" (the 

 females beginning to arrive); Eur Seal "Eookery" (breeding- 

 grounds at Polavina Point) ; " Fur Seal Harem" (Beef Bookery, 

 foreground showing relative size of males and females); "Fur 

 Seal Pups at Sleep and Play"; "Hauling Grounds" (several 

 views at different points); "Capturing Fur Seals"; "Driving 

 Eur Seals"; "Killing Fur Seals Sealing gang at work," etc. 



The only other pictorial contributions to the history of the 



* Hand-List of Seals, pi. xix. 



** 1 1 infer this to be the same specimen in each case, not only from the re- 

 semblance the figures bear to each other, but from Dr. Gray, so far as I 

 can discover, referring to only the single skull from Behring's Strait, re- 

 ^ ceived in 1859. 



] \ Marine Mammalia, pi. xxi, two figures. 

 ! Ibid., p. 143. 

 || Ibid., p. 145. 

 IT Ibid., p. 149. 



** Report on the Prybilov Group, or Fur Seal Islands, of Alaska, unpaged, 

 and plates not numbered. 



