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The males are pugnacious with each other for 

 their females. The one in the Liverpool Museum 

 Is not reckoned above the usual size of a full grown 

 female." 



To the account of the external appearance by 

 Peron, we are happy we can add the following valu- 

 able description, by our intelligent publisher, of 

 the same female of this species, preserved in the 

 Liverpool Museum, and which was put up under 

 the able direction of Dr Trail : " I have taken/' 

 says Mr Lizars, " a sketch of this Great Seal, and 

 a wonderful monster it is; compared with any 

 ordinary Seal three or four feet long, it appears 

 exactly like an Elephant when compared to a 

 sheep. The animal is laid out at full stretch, and 

 measures from the point of the nose to the end of the 

 hind flippers fifteen and a half feet ; but when the 

 bones were in situ it must have been longer, I should 

 say fully sixteen and a half feet. Its greatest circum- 

 ference, taken behind the fore -paws, is ten feet three 

 inches; but this also must be far short of what it was 

 in the living state, so that I should say it must have 

 amounted to twelve feet. If you measure across 

 between the tips of the paws, it appears the animal 

 is nearly as broad as it is long, as in the human 

 frame. The whole surface, excepting the nose, is 

 entirely covered with very short hair, dark olive 

 brown above, and shading away to a yellowish bay 

 colour below upon the belly ; upon the under part 

 of the cheeks and chin the colour approaches to a 



