South American sea lions, Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia, basking on a beach. Otaries sur la plage. Velin du museum, peint par Bocourt, d'apres Milne-Edwards. Woodcut by Marie Firmin Bocourt after Henri Milne-Edwards from Alfred Fredol’s Le Monde de la Mer, the World of the Sea, edited by Olivier Fredol, Librairie Hachette et. Cie., Paris, 1881. Alfred Fredol was the pseudonym of French zoologist and botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863.

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