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20. Grampus griseus (Cuvier). 



(Comnioti Grampus ; Gray 

 Blackfish.) 



21. Lagenorhynchus thicolea Gray. 



(Gray's Bottle-nosed whale.) 



22. Lagenorhynchus obliquidens 



Gill. (Striped Porpoise ; 

 Gill's Bottle-nosed whale.) 



23. Delphinius delphis Linnaeus. 



(Common Dolphin.) 



24. Tursiops gilli Dall. (Cowfish ; 



Gill's Dolphin.) 



25. Lissodelphis borealis (Peale). 



(Northern Right Whale Por- 

 poise ; Pacific Ocean Dol- 

 phin.) 



26. Prodelphinus Ion g i r o s t r i s 



(Gray). (Long-nosed Dol- 

 phin.) 



CARNIVORES. 

 Ursidae FISSIPEDIA. 



27. Thalarctos maxitimus Phipps. 



(Polar Bear.) 

 Mustelidas. 



28. Latax lutris (Linnaeus). Sea 



Otter.) 



29. Latax lutris nereis Merriam. 



(Southern Sea Otter.) 



Otariidje. PINNIPEDIA. 



30. Eumetopias stelleri (Lesson). 



(Steller's Sea Lion.) 



31. Zalophus calif ornianus (Les- 



son). (California Sea Lion.) 



32. Callorhinus alascensis Jordan 



& Clark. (Alaska Fur Seal.) 



33. Callorhinus kurilensis Jordan 



& Clark. (Japanese Fur 

 Seal.) 



34. Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus. 



(Russian Fur Seal.) 



35. Arctocephalus townsendi Mer- 



riam. (Guadalupe Fur Seal.) 

 Odobenidae. 



36. Odobenus obesus Illiger. (Wal- 



rus.) 



Phocidae. 



37. Macrorhinus angustirostris 



Gill. (Northern Elephant 

 Seal.) 



38. Erignathus barbatus (Fabri- 



cius). (Bearded Seal.) 



39. Histriophoca fasciata (Zimm.). 



(Ribbon Seal.) 



40. Phoca groenlandica Fabricius. 



(Harp Seal.) 



41. Phoca hispida S c h r e b e r. 



(Ringed Seal.) 



42. Phoca richardi (Gray). (Har- 



bor Seal ; Richard's Harbor 

 Seal.) 



43. P'hoca richardi geronimensis 



Allen. (California Harbor 

 Seal ; Leopard Seal.) 



44. Phoca stejnegeri Allen. (Stej- 



neger's Harbor Seal.) 



Here is a list of forty-four species of 

 large animals ; included among them 

 are the largest animals living in the 

 world today. Whether there really are 

 forty-four different species we do not 

 know ; that number may be too great 

 but more probably it is not large 

 enough. We do not know — and that is 

 the important consideration now — -the 

 largest and in many respects the most 

 interesting animals in existence, and 

 we are compelled to admit we know 

 less as to the number of species than 

 we know of almost any other group. 



Nor do we know very much about 

 the geographic distribution of many of 

 these animals. To be sure, we know 

 something of the abundance and dis- 

 tribution of the three northern species 

 of fur seal and the northern sea otter, 

 and the sea lions, but of the whales, 

 porpoises and the southern sea otter 

 and the Guadalupe fur seal scarcely 

 anything. 



And of the life histories of these 

 wonderful animals we know scarcely 

 more than Scammon knew more than 

 a half century ago. Their food and 



