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SEA-LION OF STELLER. 



Phoca Jubata. GMELIN. 



Otaria Stelleri, Less. Phoca Jubata, Gmel. Desm. Plat. Leo- 

 ninus, F. Cuv. Dampiero Leo Marinus, Steller. Sea- Lion 

 of Steller. 



ACCORDING to Steller,* the length of the full-grown 

 Sea- Lion of the North is about fifteen feet, and its 

 weight about sixteen hundred weight. The males 

 have stiffand crisp curled hair about the neck, of which 

 the females and young are destitute. The females 

 are shorter and more slender than the males. The hide 

 is very thick, and covered with coarse strong hair of 

 a reddish colour like that of many cows, which gets 

 paler in the aged, and is of a deeper hue in the 

 young ; in the females it has a bright ochre tint, and 



Nov. Comment. Acad. Sclent. Petropol. t. ii ad annum 

 1749. 



