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prices range from £5 to £15, and I have seen as much as £25 
asked. 
I regret that I have no data concerning the prices of any of 
the American Bears. 
Family Oraripm™. 
The Californian Sea-Lion is sold for from £40 to £50 a head 
in Kurope. The other species rarely come into the market. 
Family PHocip2. 
I have hardly been able to ascertain anything as to the values 
of Seals. The common European Seal, Phoca vitulina, I once 
saw on a price list quoted at £4: and a travelling showman was 
once very anxious to sell me a Mediterranean Seal, Monachus 
albiventer, for £100!!! 
Order CHIROPTERA. 
Family PreropopIpz. 
The African Fruit-Bat, Rousettus leacht (Cynonycteris collaris 
of Sclater’s list) used to be sold by the Zoological Society of 
London for £1 5s. each: these were specimens bred in their 
menagerie. 
Order RODENTIA. 
Family Scruripa. 
The prices of Squirrels present little of interest, ranging from 
the common Indian Palm-Squirrel at ten shillings a head to the 
great Malabar Squirrel at £2 to £2 5s. 
The Kuropean Marmot I have noted priced at £1 5s., and the 
American ‘‘ Prairie Dog”’ at £1 a head. 
Family Castoripm. 
The only Beavers I have ever seen offered for sale are the 
Canadian ones bred in the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, which 
are priced at from £15 to £17 10s. each. If such prices could 
be maintained, the breeding of Beavers in Europe should be a 
profitable business. 
Family OctoponTIp&. 
Myopotamus coypus, the Coypu-Rat, frequently figures in 
price lists at from eighteen shillings to as much as £8 per head. 
Family Hysrricipm. 
Hystrix cristata.—The various races of Porcupines which it is 
convenient to group under this name vary in price, according to 
