EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 



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

 end of the tail, 2190 mm. (7 feetSinches, Swedish measure) ; from 

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



Fig. 54. Cystophora cristata. No. 6576, Nat. Mus ; i 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, 1980 mm. (6i 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 1970 mm. 



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



