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SEALS AND SEA-LIONS 



killing Walruses for commercial purposes; and it is difficult 

 to foresee how the species can be saved. To make treaties 

 for Walrus protection with all the maritime nations would be 

 so long a matter it is likely that the Walruses would all be 

 killed before protection by treaty could be made effective. 



We greatly fear the 

 Pacific Walrus will be 

 utterly exterminated 

 within a very few 

 years. 



The Atlantic Wal- 

 rus^ is of about the 

 same length as the Pa- 

 cific species, but it has 

 a shorter and much 

 smaller neck. Its tusks, 

 also, are much smaller. 

 It is still found in considerable numbers in Smith's Sound, 

 and is quite abundant north of Franz Joseph Lafad, where 

 Nansen photographed and killed many. Its most northerly 

 latitude is 82°. A specimen killed by Commander Robert E. 

 Peary was 9 feet in length, and weighed 1,569 pounds. The 

 skin alone weighed 220 pounds. 



Professor L. L. Dyche has kindly furnished the measure- 

 ments of the largest male Walrus out of eighteen taken by 

 him on the coast of northern Greenland: 



Length (straight line), end of nose to end of body, 129 

 inches. 



YOUNG ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



Captured by Commander R. B. Peary, and exhibited 

 in the New York Zoological Park. 



* 0-do-ben'us ros-ma'rus. 



