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ground. Then the digits of the hand are dii'ected back- 

 wards, while those of the hind-foot are turned forwards. 

 The two hind-limbs, however, are bound together by the 

 skin almost down to the ankles, and so, in walking, that 

 part of the body presents a singularly constrained and 

 awkward appearance. 



We have said that the sea-lion can hardly be unknown 

 by any visitor to San Francisco, and such is indeed 

 the case, for their destruction has been for some time 

 Fig. 74. 



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THE CALIFORNIAN SEA-LION. 



forbidden, and a view of them (through a telescope) 

 disporting themselves on some adjacent rocks, is one of 

 the sights shown to those who come for the first time to 

 the City of the Golden Gate. 



During the last twenty years the animal has become 

 well known even in Europe, and has been shown at the 

 Central Park Menagerie, New York, and the Zoological 

 Gardens of Philadelphia and Cincinnati. It has also 

 been exhibited by the late Mr. P. T. Barnum. A sea- 

 lion, though of a different variety, was first brought to 

 the Zoological Societ/s Garden, in London, in 1866. It 



