766 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 







Eound his jaws are long cat-like bristles, as thick as a large 

 darning-needle. Demoniacal as his appearance is his voice is 

 as bad a jerking imitative scream, lowing and i)uffing, often 

 repeated, and in which it seems to delight." German Arctio 

 Expedition, 1869-70, p. 479. 



Geographical Distribution. To the remarks on this 

 subject add the following : 



Nova Zembla and Northern Coast of Europe. According to 

 Alexander Schultz, Walruses are caught "on the coasts of 

 Novaya Zemblya and the islands of Yaigatch and Kalonyen." 



He also states that " About a dozen sailing-vessels devote 

 themselves habitually to hunting the Walrus from Cape Ka- 

 nine to the mouth of the Kara ". Rep. U. 8. Commis. Fish and 

 Fisheries, Part iii, 1876, pp. 53, 56. 



Franz-Josef Land. Payer reports Walruses as seen on two 

 occasions near the coast of Franz -Josef Land. New Lands 

 within the Arctic Circle, p. 266. 



Abundance in Wolstenholme Sound. "Two floe-pieces two or 

 three feet thick, and each covering an area of about half a mile, 

 were black with the large ungainly creatures", in Wolstenholme 

 Sound, August, 1871. Narrative of the '' Polaris'''' North Polar 

 Expedition, 1876, p. 72. 



Spitzbergen, etc. Mr. J. C. Eoss, in Parry's "Third Voyage" 

 (1824, p. 192), says that " Trichechus rosmarus^^ is "Very uncom- 

 mon along the western coast of Spitzbergen and the Low Islands 

 of Phipps ; but none seen to the northward of Walden Island." 



Iceland. Respecting the former occurrence of the Walrus 

 in Iceland Olafsen observes "Dahingegen hat man hier [Ost- 

 Island] mehr Rostunge als an andern Orten, inbesondere kam 

 1708 eine ungewohnliche Menge davon nacli den Ost-fiorden." 

 Peise durch Island (German translation), Theil ii, p. 118, 1861. 



Supposed Presence of Walruses in the Antarctic 

 Seas. In the last footnote to page 176 reference is made to 

 Mr. E. Brown's belief that " It is not unlikely that it [the Wal- 

 rus] may even be found in the Antarctic regions ", in relation to 

 which I there observe : "This idea I have not seen elsewhere 

 revived since the early part of the present century". I find, 

 however, that Schinz, in his " Synopsis Mammalium " published 



