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Title: History of North American pinnipeds : a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921
Subjects: Pinnipedia -- North America Mammals -- North America
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Earth Sciences - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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«liliiiilillllllllillli point, says distinctly; The female of this species has no hoodon the head.* Mr. Brown, however, observes: It is assertedby the sealers that this bladder is a sexual mark, and is notfound on the female. But he adds: I do not think there isany just ground for this belief; yet he presents no reasons for * Seal aud Herriug Fisheries of Newfoundland, p. 14. 728 CYSTOPIIORA CRISTATA HOODED SEAL. this statement.* The testimony on this point is too explicit,however, to be set aside on the mere ground of of>inion. Eespecting the size of this species, DeKay gives the totallength of the male specimen deseribed by him as 90.5 inches, of
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which the tail formed 6.5 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 flesh , 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, will weighonly 150 to 200 pounds. This indicates that the female is muchsmaller than the male (loc. cit., p. 14). Quennerstedt gives the *Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 186S, p. 436, footnote; Manual Nat. Hist., Geol.,etc., Greenland, Mam., 1875, p. (54, footnote. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 729 following measurements: Male, from the point of the nose to theend of the tail, 2190 mm. (7 feetSinches, Swedish measure); fromthe point of the nose to the end of the hind extremities 2400 mm.

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