Plate XXVI 



Monograph SEAL-ISLANDS, 



A FUR-SEAL, as drawn by C. Landseer, 1848. 



'O. nigra Black Otary." [Encyelo. Metropolitana, London, 1848, Fig. 2, pi. ix, p. 1O9 ] 



[Evidently drawn from an alcoholic or air-ilriecl specimen of an A rctocephalus pup, in its black natal coat. H. W. E.] 



THE FUR-SEAL. 



(Callorhinus ursinus.) 



[Fac-simile of a figure engraved on steel from a drawing by Sidney Edwards based upon Steller's description, published as " Phoca uraina " in the 

 Book of Nature, vol. i, pi. 53, Phila., 1834. This is, in its aggregate, one of the best figures of the Fur-seal given to the world prior to HIV life-studies on 

 the Pribylov Islands, 1872-70, inclusive. H. W. E.] 



