NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 719 
ATLANTIC WALRUS. 
spawning salmon. Comparatively few Sea-Lions are now 
found on the mainland coast of California. On the United 
States Light-House reservations their slaughter is prohibited 
by the Light-House Board. 
The specimens exhibited in the Zoological Park were cap- 
tured for the Society near Santa Barbara. Their captors 
provided themselves with lassos, crept along the rocky cav- 
erns which served the creatures as sleeping-dens, lassoed 
them, and drew them forth. During the long journey 
across the continent they travelled in crates, were fed on 
raw fish, and twice a day were drenched with water, Inas- 
much as these are warm-blooded animals, provided with 
lungs, not gills, they live and thrive in fresh water. Owing 
to lack of room, this species has never yet been known to 
breed in captivity, although many ‘‘pups’’ have been born 
in zoological gardens to newly caught mothers. 
The California Sea-Lion is very similar in size, and, leaving 
the old males out of consideration, it is almost the exact 
counterpart in form of that apple of perpetual international 
discord—the Alaskan ‘‘fur seal.’’ The unfortunate fact that 
the latter animal has become known as a “‘seal,’’ has caused 
much confusion in people’s minds regarding the classifica- 
tion of pinnipeds (fin-footed animals) generally. For this 
reason, it is proper to observe at this point that: 
Sea-Lions have flat, triangular, naked front flippers, 
without claws; they have long necks, and carry their heads 
