Steller's Sea Lion 



stricted to the bachelor seals, which from their habit of herding 

 apart from the others can readily be driven aside, and those 

 desirable for killing selected. The skins of four-year-old animals 

 are less valuable and those of the old bulls worthless. 



By the exercise of care and the enforcement of a definite 

 limit to the number to be killed in a year, the stock of seals 

 could easily be maintained, but the pelagic sealing when the 

 animals are away from their rookeries is most destructive. 



Steller's Sea Lion 



Eumetopias stelleri (Lesson) 



Length. 10 feet. (Female 8 feet 6 inches. ) 



Description. Lacks the dense fur of the preceding. Hair, reddish 



brown inclined to golden in summer, duller and browner 



in winter. 

 Range. Bering Straits to California. 



This animal is a hair seal like the following and lacks the 

 soft velvety underfur of the fur seal. It is the largest of the 

 group, considerably exceeding the fur seal, which in habits it 

 much resembles. Throughout the Bering Sea region it is the 

 only sea lion, but farther south its range overlaps that of Gilles- 

 pie's hair seal, and in the neighbourhood of San Francisco both 

 occur together and are often confused under the same general 

 name. The present species is, however, much the rarer at this 

 point. 



Gillespie's Hair Seal 

 Zalophus californianus (Lesson) 

 Called also Sea Lion, Gillespie's Seal. 



Length. 7 feet. 



Description. Dark reddish brown in summer. Much lighter in 

 winter, when the upper parts are pale grayish, though still 

 brown beneath and on the limbs. Form much more slender 

 than either of the preceding, with a much longer and more slender 

 snout than the fur seal. (Illustrations facing pp. 204 and 205.) 



Range. Pacific Coast of the United States north to California (San 

 Francisco.) 



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