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excellent drawing of the walrus is too large for us to reproduce 
in these pages, but as a skeleton has lately been exhumed at 
Portland, Maine, and skulls have occurred as far south as Vir- 
ginia, and are likely to occur at other points, we have, by permis- 
sion of the publishers inserted a figure of the skeleton (Fig. 4). 
The chapter on the Szvenza is full and entertaing, the dugong 
of the East Indian seas (Fig. 5.) is apparently well drawn, as is 
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Fic. 1—The Rocky Mountain Sheep. 
the lamantin or manatee of South America. While the account 
of the latter animal is fair, the northern limits of its distribution 
in Florida is not given, nor are the statements of American 
authors referred to. Steller’s manatee (RAytina Stelleri) is de- 
scribed in a popular way, but the opportunity of giving a good 
figure of this extinct Sirenian, if that were possible, is not taken. 
he Cetaceans receive fair treatment, and there are several good 
illustrations of them. 
