History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . which the tail formed inches. He says its weight was 500to 600 pounds (loc. cit., p. 56). Carroll says the length of theHooded Seal, from nose to tail, is 6 to 8 feet, and that theweight of the male, when in full llesh , varies from 800 to 900pounds, of which the skin and fat form 350 to 450 pounds,while the skin and fat of the female, when prime, wTill weighonly 150 to 200 pounds. This indicates that the female is muchsmaller than the male (loc. p. 14). Quenuerstedt gi
History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . which the tail formed inches. He says its weight was 500to 600 pounds (loc. cit., p. 56). Carroll says the length of theHooded Seal, from nose to tail, is 6 to 8 feet, and that theweight of the male, when in full llesh , varies from 800 to 900pounds, of which the skin and fat form 350 to 450 pounds,while the skin and fat of the female, when prime, wTill weighonly 150 to 200 pounds. This indicates that the female is muchsmaller than the male (loc. p. 14). Quenuerstedt gives the *Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 436, footnote; Manual Nat. Hist., Geol.,etc., Greenland, Mam., 1875, p. 64, footnote. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 729 following measurements : Male, from the point of the nose to theend of the tail, 2190 mm. (7 feet3inches, Swedish measure); fromthe point of the nose to the end of the hind extremities 2400 FIG. 54.—Cystophora cristata. No. 657P, Nat. Mus ; | nat. size. (8 Swedish feet); length of the fore limb 480 mm.; of the hindlimb 420 mm.; of the tail 105 mm. Female, from the point ofthe nose to the end of the tail, 1980 mm. (<U Swedish feet.*)He gives the length of two young ones a few days old as respect-ively 3 feet 4 inches and 3 feet 9 inches. I find the length of askeleton of an adult male, from the point of the nose to the endof the tail, to be 1970 mm. ~* K. Sv. Vet^Akacl. Handl., Band vii, No. 3, 1868, pp. 25, 26. 730 CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA HOODED SEAL. SKELETON AND SKULL.—The skull of the Crested Seal (, from a rather young example) is nearly quadrate in gen-eral form, with the anteorbital portion abruptly and greatlynarrowed. The orbits are very large, the palatal region verybroad and flat, the auditory bullae large and regularly swollen,the brain-case very short and very broad. The interorbital
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