California mammals . ough job for my pocket knife, as the skin was nearlythree quarters of an inch thick. We rolled the body off the rocksinto deep water alongside, where it sunk as quickly as a stone anddid not re-appear. While cutting the head off several mediumsized animals came quite close tO the islet as if they wanted toclimb on. On our way back to camp we saw several small and mediumsized Sea Ivions and an old male playing in the surf. The malegreeted us with barks and the whole group swam alongside ushalf a mile or more, as if to show us how agile they were, i^nd howeasily they could r
California mammals . ough job for my pocket knife, as the skin was nearlythree quarters of an inch thick. We rolled the body off the rocksinto deep water alongside, where it sunk as quickly as a stone anddid not re-appear. While cutting the head off several mediumsized animals came quite close tO the islet as if they wanted toclimb on. On our way back to camp we saw several small and mediumsized Sea Ivions and an old male playing in the surf. The malegreeted us with barks and the whole group swam alongside ushalf a mile or more, as if to show us how agile they were, i^nd howeasily they could run away from us if they liked. Probably theirmotive was curiosity. Genus Eumetopias (Typical—broad fore-head. )Molar separated from premolars by a space about as broad asthat occupied by a premolar; molar double rooted; premolars sin-gle rooted; crowns simple; rostrum short and wide; occipital andsaggital crests not greatly developed, no underfur. Dental formifla, I, 3—2; C, i—i; P, 4—4; M, i—iX2= OTARIID^ 205 Eumetopias jubata Schrijber. (With a mane.) STELLAR SEA LION. Externally very similar to Zdophus califomiamis; supposedto average larger; colors similar and as variable. Type locality, North Pacific Ocean. Stellar Sea Lions range from Bering Straits east and southalong the Pacific coast of North America to the Farallone Is-lands, California. I have never seen this species, but specimensof it from the Farallone Islands are in scientific collections. Noneare known from further south however, and this species is prob-ably much less common there than the California Sea Lion. Ex-ternally the two species seem to be much alike, but probably an ex-pert would see differences on comparison. The gap in the molarsin the tooth row of the Stellar Sea Lion is quickly seen by any onewho has an opportunity for such examination. The habits of the two species are similar though the StellarSea Lion seems to migrate with more regularity. There is a dif-ference in their vo
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