History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . ties. Scammon. Boundthe under side of the .neck, in the oldest males, the animal ap-pears to undergo a change with age; the hair falls off, the skinthickens and becomes wrinkled—the furrows crossing each other,producing a checkered surface—and sometimes the throat ismore or less marked with white spots. Its proboscis extends partagent, as 1827, instead of 1824, the correct date. He also cites F. Cu-viers article on LesPhoques in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Natu-relles as publis
History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . ties. Scammon. Boundthe under side of the .neck, in the oldest males, the animal ap-pears to undergo a change with age; the hair falls off, the skinthickens and becomes wrinkled—the furrows crossing each other,producing a checkered surface—and sometimes the throat ismore or less marked with white spots. Its proboscis extends partagent, as 1827, instead of 1824, the correct date. He also cites F. Cu-viers article on LesPhoques in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Natu-relles as published in tome lix, 1829, although it appeared originally intorue xxix, 1826. The result is a postdating by three years of F. Cuviersgeneric and specific names, favoring, as it happens (accidentally or other-wise), several of Grays names published in Griffiths Animal Kingdomin 1827. 744 M. ANGUSTIROSTRIS CALIFORNIAN SEA ELEPHANT. from opposite tlie angle of the mouth forward (in the largermales) about fifteen inches, when the creature is in a state ofquietude, and the upper surface appears ridgy; but when the. animal makes an excited respiration, the trunk becomes elon-gated, and the ridges nearly disappear. The females aredestitute of the proboscis, the nose being like that of the com-mon seal, but projecting more over the mouth. Scammon. Captain Scammon gives the following measurements, in feetand inches, of two large females taken on the coast of LowerCalifornia: No. 1. No. 2. Lengthfrom tip to tip 9 0 10 0 Round the body behind the fore flippers 5 10 5 9 Length of tail 0 2 0 2$ EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 745 Breadth of tail at rootLength of posterior flippersExpansion of posteriorLength of fore flippersWidth of fore flippers ,t No. No. 2- ippcrs 1 7 1 7 >r ll ii tpcrs 1 R 1 8 1 5 1 2 0 6 0 6 todv nt root of tail. . 1 6 1 7
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