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is sometimes of a cbesnut colour in the young. The 

 head is large ; the nose stretched out, and somewhat 

 turned upwards; the eyes are very large, having the 

 inner angle stained, as it were, with cinnabar from the 

 size of the caruncle ; the bright pupil sparkles of a 

 green colour, and the rest of the eye is white like 

 ivory; the eye-brows are bushy; the external ears 

 conical, upright, large, and distinct. That which 

 especially, in addition to the colour and size of the 

 animal, entitles it to the name of Sea- Lion, is its 

 mane of erect and undulating hair, which augments 

 its apparent size, and greatly increases its beauty of 

 form, like that which is seen in the king of beasts. In 

 the upper jaw there are six incisors ; four of these 

 have double or twin summits, or are bifurcated; then 

 succeeds one, canine-shaped on each side, more than 

 an inch long, very sharp, and curved inwards ; then 

 there are the true canines, twice as long as the last, and 

 very sharp ; then six molars, shaped like canines, 

 with a small heal before and behind ; they are almost 

 two-thirds of an inch long. The formulary is 

 Lli|-_ : 3g > The shape is exhibited on p. 236. 



This Sea- Lion inhabits the eastern shores of 

 Kamskatka and the Kurile Islands, and as far as 

 Matsmai, where Captain Spunberg observed a cer- 

 tain island of the most picturesque form, bordered 

 with rocks resembling buildings, and swarming with 

 these creatures, to which he gave the name of the 

 Palace of Sea-Lions. They abound in Behring's 

 Island in the autumn, whither they resort for the 

 bringing forth of their young. Steller also saw 



