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Ycrrd with short, tliick, and soft hair^ the colour 

 of wliich is various, being a mixture of dun, 

 ycHow, grey, and dirty white. The female is of 

 a less size, and not so fat as the male, and 

 has but a slight appearance of a trunk upon the 

 nose. 



Lord Anson has improperly called this animal 

 the sea-lion; and Linnanis, from his authority, 

 has denominated it phoca Iconina, an appellation 

 niLieh more appropriate to another animal of the 

 same genus, but of a very difierent species. 

 The lames are found in the greatest numbers on 

 the island of Juan Fernandez, the Araucanian 

 coast, the Archi[)elaiio of Chiloe, and the Straits 

 of Maxell tn. They herd together in large 

 companies, and during the summer are almost 

 coiitiiuiallv in the sea, but on the commencement 

 of v/ inter they go on shore, where they bring 

 forth their voung. Tliev copulate, like the 

 urignes, hv raising themselv(>s on their hind feet, 

 and have the same number of young with them 

 Allien onshore they frequent miryphices, Mherc 

 tliey wallow and frequentlv sleep, placing, as a 

 .sentinel, one of their imniber upon a rising 

 ground, who gives notice of the approach of any 

 danger by frightful bowlings. 



The sea-elephant is \hc largest of the phoca. 

 and prodiiees more oi! than luiy of the others; it 

 is so i'di iha', whenever it move-:, the oil is seen 

 to uiidulute beneath the skin. The mules appear 



