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and Point Arena. On the coast of Oregon it is found about 

 the mouth of the Columbia and near Tillamook Head. The 

 agents of the United States Fish Commission, reporting ob- 

 servations made in 1901, stated that 'probably half of the 

 Sea-Lions of California (of both species) are found at the Fa- 

 rallone Islands, and it seems doubtful whether the total num- 

 ber on the coast amounts to five thousand." A large colony 

 of Steller Sea-Lions inhabits Bogoslof Island, Alaska, living 

 almost in the shadow of that celebrated volcano. Twice they 

 have been photographed for moving pictures. 



In October, 1903, the New York Zoological Society's 

 agents succeeded, after many fruitless efforts, in capturing 

 six young specimens in the sea off San Miguel Island, Cali- 

 fornia, and safely transporting them to New York. The ex- 

 pectation that these animals would prove to be more hardy 

 in New York than the California Sea-Lion was not realized. 

 They all died within six months, of pneumonia — the curse of 

 Sea-Lions in captivity in fresh water. 



The Fur-Seal, 1 which yields the beautiful and costly fur 

 so highly prized for ladies' garments, is not a true seal, but a 

 sea-bear or sea-lion, quite similar in form, size, and general 

 habits to the California species already described. It is found 

 on the Pribilof or Seal Islands, in Bering Sea, where during 

 the Russian occupation it was twice nearly exterminated for 

 its fur; on Copper and llobben Islands, off the coast of 

 Siberia; and in the open sea from the Pribilof Islands south- 

 eastward to the thirty-fifth parallel, thence northward along 

 the coast, back to the Seal Islands. 



1 Cal-lo-ta'ri-a ur-si'na. 



