ODOB^NUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 765 



B -ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS. 



Family ODOBiENID^. 



ODOB^NUS EOSMAEUS. 



To the bibliographical references to this species already given 

 {anteci, pp. 23-26) add the following : 



Bostunger oder Bossmer, Olafsen, Reise durch Island, i, 1774, 189, 525 (uses 

 of the tusks) ; ii, 118, 1861 (occurrence in Iceland). 



Tricheclms rosmarus, E. Sabine, Parry's First Voy., Suppl., 1824, cxci. 

 Richardson, Parry's Second Voy., Suppl., 1825, 337. J. C. Ross, 

 Parry's Third Voy., 1826, 192 (distribution Spitzbergen, Walden 

 Island, etc.). SCHINZ, Syn. Mam., i, 1844, 487. Lloyd, Game Birds 

 and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway, 1867, 444. Feilden, Nares's 

 Voy. to the Polar Sea, 1875-76, ii, 1878, 196. Alston, Proc. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1879, 97 (Outer Hebrides); Fauna of Scotland, 

 Mam., 1880, 15 (Western Scotland). 



Odoiainus rosmarus, Quennerstedt, Kongl. SvenskaVetenskaps-Akademiens 

 Handlingar, vii. No. 3, 1868, 10. 



Size and External Appearance. To the remarks al- 

 ready given the following may be added : 



Dr. E. Sabine gives the length of a young male, from the 

 point of the nose to the end of the hind flippers, as 10 feet 3 

 inches, and the weight as 1,384 pounds. Parry^s First Voyage, 

 Suppl., 1824, p. cxci. 



" One of the largest Walruses we saw was killed on the ice 

 near Shannon, on the 27th of August, 1860, by Dr. Copeland. 

 It measured 9 feet 11 inches. ... It [the Walrus] is from 

 9 feet 6 inches to 16 feet 6 inches long, weighs about 20 cwt., 

 and its skin is 3^ inches thick (a sort of massive coat of mail), 

 with a head of infinite ugliness, rather large eyes, and tusks 

 sometimes 30 inches long (of a sort of ivory), which help the 

 creature to obtain his food (chiefly mussels) from the bottom of 

 the sea, and, together with the breast-fins, help him to climb 

 on to the floating ice to a place of rest [compare antea, p. 137]. 



