CONCLUSIONS. D7 
“It derives its scientific name from the nauseous smell peculiar 
to certain older individuals, especially those captured in the inter- 
ior ice-fjords, which are also on an average perhaps twice as large 
as those generally occurring off the outer shores. When brought 
into a hut, and cut up on its floor, such a seal emits a smell 
> resembling something between that of assafoetida and onions, al- 
most insupportable to strangers. ‘This peculiarity is not noticeable 
in the younger specimens or those of a smaller size, such as are 
generally caught, and at all events the smell does not detract from 
the utility of the flesh over the whole of Greenland’. — Danish 
Greenland, its People and its Products p. 123 (Auten, Hist. J. 
Am. Pinn. p. 624). 
Feeling. Also in seals and sea-lions in our Zoological Gardens 
we may often observe that they dislike wind, and hold only the 
top of their nose above water, that they shut their eyes, and like 
to bask in the sun. 
Smell, Hearing, Sight. Jt is also known of Pinnipeds that their 
smell is very good and their hearing very sharp, but that their 
sight is quite limited. This must not surprise us. Their eyes are 
adapted to see under water, but such eyes don’t see so well in 
the air. Yet I have observed that seals distinguish their keeper 
from other persons at a distance of twenty or thirty yards. 
Relative mobility of organs. Every one who has ever witnessed 
the graceful movements of seals and sea-lions, especially those of 
Zalophus califormanus will admit that these animals, like sea- 
serpents, are “as limber and active as an eel”. There is not one 
movement made by the sea-serpent, which cannot be made in per- 
fectly the same way by sea-lions, especially by Zalophus califor- 
mianus, save the movement of the tail. 
Motion. The same may be observed in comparing the motions 
of sea-serpents with those of Zalophus californianus. 'They too may 
appear on the surface, exposing head, neck, and so much of the 
forepart of the trunk, as to show their flappers; nay, they may 
like all kinds of whales, jump clear out of the water. When swim- 
ming slowly, they may occasionally swim with vertical undulations, 
they usually, however, propel themselves by means of their flap- 
pers, holding their body in a straight line; and sometimes hori- 
zontal undulations are distinctly visible; in darting on some prey 
they swim not only with their fiappers, but undulate their body 
both horizontally and vertically at intervals. Of course generally 
only one or two, seldom three undulations are to be counted. 
