. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE SEA Wr^Blp' thi-ough tlie breakers to the small boat, and towed to the vessel. On board, large pots set in a brick furnace are ready prepared, where the blubber is rendered, tlie oil extracted being very superior for lubricating purposes. In these voyages the ci-ews, unlike the Dundee fishers, hunt both Seals and Whales at the same time, the Americans ha^'ing quite a monopoly of this special trade. Ross's Large-eyed Seal.*—In the voyage of the Erehus i\vA Terror to the Antarctic regions, , there was obtained a Seal na
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE SEA Wr^Blp' thi-ough tlie breakers to the small boat, and towed to the vessel. On board, large pots set in a brick furnace are ready prepared, where the blubber is rendered, tlie oil extracted being very superior for lubricating purposes. In these voyages the ci-ews, unlike the Dundee fishers, hunt both Seals and Whales at the same time, the Americans ha^'ing quite a monopoly of this special trade. Ross's Large-eyed Seal.*—In the voyage of the Erehus i\vA Terror to the Antarctic regions, , there was obtained a Seal named after the commander of the Expedition. Little or nothing is recorded of its special habitat and habits, the main peculiarities resting in its skeleton. The stufied .skin, now in the British ^Museum, is of a gi-eenish-yellow colour, with close, oblique, yellow stripes on the side, pale beneath,' and the fur is close-set and rigid. The skull is broad, with great orbits. This genus has six molar teeth on each side of the upper and fi\ e on each side of the lower jaw. The canines are of very moderate dimensions, and the teeth, ;« a \\liole, are iclati\ely small. Its specific name is derived from its great eyes. The Sea —Under the nanu's .'^.m ],:ii(1 ;m<l Leopard S-al, indiscriminately used by the sailors or Southern sealers, two animals, appari'iitly distinct, Iiave evidently been confounded by them as well as by naturalists. Indeed, another seemingly totally iiiiiiiinl of the Nortli Pacific has also been named Leopard Seal by Scammon. That to which the title Si;i appears most applicable is what De Blainville and others called the Small-nailed Seal (I'liMr,, /•), and F. €uvier the Narrow-muzzled Seal {Stenorhijnchus kptonyx). Its precise distribution is uncertain, but it lias been found on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Falkland, Campbell, Auckland, and Lord Howe's Islands, and tlic Antarctic Ocean (on pack-ice). It
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