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 gravish, 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. 
Range. Pacific Coast of the United States north to California 
(San Francisco.) 
