HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 5 I I 



THE URSINE SEAL, OR SEA-BEAR. 



(Phoca Ursina, Linn L'Ours Man' it y BufF.) 



Is much larger than the common Seal, being 

 eight feet in length, and weighing eight hundred 

 pounds." 



These animals are found among the islands 

 which lie between Kamschatka and America; also 

 on the coasts of New Zealand, Staten Island, New 

 Georgia, and Falkland's Islands. They lie in 

 thousands on the shore, in separate families, each 

 consisting of above an hundred. One male will 

 sometimes have fifty females, which he guards with 

 extreme jealousy. They are excessively fat and 

 indolent, sometimes even scarcely moving from the 

 place where they lie for the space of three months; 

 during which time the females breed and suckle 



