EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 729 



following measurements : Male, from the point of the nose to the 

 end of the tail, 2190 mm. (7 feet 3 inches, Swedish measure) ; from 

 the point of the nose to the end of the hind extremities 2400 mm. 



FIG. 54. Cystophora cristata. No. 6576, Nat. Mas ; | nat. size. 



(8 Swedish feet) ; length of the fore limb 480 mm.; of the hind 

 limb 420 mm.; of the tail 105 mm. Female, from the point of 

 the nose to the end of the tail, 10X0 mm. (O.J Swedish feet.*) 

 He gives the length of two young ones a few days old as respect- 

 ively 3 feet 4 inches and 3 feet 9 inches. I find the length of a 

 skeleton of an adult male, from the point of the nose to the end 

 of the tail, to be 1970mm. 



~~*K. Sv. Vt.-Akad. Handl., Band vii, No. 3, 1868, pp. 25, 26. 



