A Pretty Baby 



The Manatee or 

 Sea Cow 



(Tricbecbus 

 latirostris) 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



tail propeller in her eagerness to reach 

 deeper water was amusing, but not the less 

 remarkable. I could observe her plainly 

 for a hundred yards, and when she at last 

 disappeared in deep water she was still hug- 

 ging her calves. 



Once at Mullet Key, in Tampa Bay, a 

 man at the quarantine station shot a por- 

 poise that was floundering in the water. I 

 saw that it was about dead, and procuring 

 a boat I towed it ashore. It was a female 

 and seemed to be gravid. I performed the 

 caesarian operation and found a single baby 

 porpoise nearly two feet long. It was a 

 beautiful animal, the upper half being slate 

 color and the lower half a fine rosy pink. 

 It was sent with other specimens to Wash- 

 ington and a cast made of it. 



Another day while sailing in Barnes 

 Sound we ran across three manatees feeding 

 on a plant resembling eel grass. As we kept 

 very quiet we were almost upon them be- 

 fore they discovered the boat then they 

 stood not on the order of going, but went 

 at once, and went in a hurry. The wake 

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