Plate XXV 1 



Monograph— SEAL-ISLA NDS. 





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

 ' O. nigra— Black Otary." [Encyclo. Metropolitana, London, 1848, Fig. 2, pi. ix, p. 109 ] 



[Kviileiitlv <Ir:i\vii from iiii iilrolinlio or air-dritMl specinu'U of an A rftitcepkalns puji. in its black natal (■oat. — H. AV. E.I 



THE FUR-SEAL. 



(Callorhinus ursinus.) 



[Fac-similc of a figure ongraveil on steel from a drawing by Sidney Edwards based upon StelU'r'.s dpcscription, published as " Phoia ursina " in tlie 

 Book of Nature, vol. i. pi. 33, PUila., 1834. This is, in its aggregate, one of the best figures of the Fur-seal given to the world prior to my life-studies on 

 the Pribvlov Islands, 1872-70, inclusive.— H. W. E.l 



