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and of the formidable nature of its attack. He gives an 

 account of the affectionate conduct of the walrus to its 

 young (p. 80). " In the vast sheet of ice which surrounded 

 the ships, there were occasionally many pools ; and, when 

 the weather was clear and warm, animals of various kinds 

 would frequently rise and sport about in them, or crawl 

 from thence upon the ice to bask in the warmth of the sun. 

 A walrus rose in one of these pools close to the ship, and 

 finding everything quiet, dived down and brought up its 

 young, which it held to its breast by pressing it with its 

 flipper. In this manner it moved about the pool, keeping 

 in an erect posture, and always directing the face of the young 

 toward the vessel. On the slightest movement on board, the 

 mother released her fliipper and pushed the young one under 

 water ; but, when everything was again quiet, brought it up 

 as before, and for a length of time continued to play about 

 in the pool, to the great amusement of the seamen, who gave 

 her credit for abilities in tuition, which, though possessed of 

 considerable sagacity, she hardly merited." 



Scoresby, in the Arctic Regions, i, pp. 502-508, treats of 

 the walrus as inhabiting the seas around Spitzbergen. A 

 small specimen was brought alive to this country by a whal- 

 ing captain in the autumn of 1853 ; it lived but a short time. 

 Dr. Gray secured the specimen for the British Museum. 



Myodes Hudsonids — Hudson's Bay Lemming. 



On Parry's expedition the skeleton of one of these animals 

 was found in a floe of ice to the northward of Spitzbergen, 

 in north latitude 81° i^, at about sixty miles from the nearest 

 known land. The peculiar formation of the fore -claws, 

 which were quite perfect, pointed out the species. 



Hart or Deer. Page 79. 

 Rangifer Taraxdus — the Reindeer. 



Found, both on Phipps' and Parry's expeditions, abun- 

 dantly. Sir James Ross, in the appendix to the narrative of 



