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Title: The animals of New Zealand; an account of the dominion's air-breathing vertebrates
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, 1836-1905 Drummond, James, 1869-1940
Subjects: Zoology Birds
Publisher: Christchurch, N. Z., Whitcombe and Tombs
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e of being turned forwards.Tore flippers with rudimentary claws. Incisors, six above andfour below. Gonis Arctoccplialus.Muzzle rather tapering in front, ears rather long. Palate ofthe skull rather narrower behind than in front; short, scarcelyreaching to the middle of the zygomatic arch. Southern Seas. Key to the Species. No nuder-fur mixed with the hair. A. hookeri. Under-fur as well as hair. A. forsteri. THE SEA LION 43 The Sea Lion.—Whakaha. Arctocephalus Jiookeri. Male—Greyish black above, dark brown below; the neck very thick,and with longer hairs. Length, when fnll grown, ten or twelve feet.Female—Pale tawny. Length, six feet. Young—At first like theiemale, then brownish black. Auckland Islands and Campbell Island.The male only is called sea lion by the sealers, the female is generallycalled sea bear. It is still very common at the Auckland Islands. The Auckland Islands were the scene of sealing activity formany years, the first expeditions setting out from Sydney early
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(Traus. Zool. Hoc.i Sea Lion. in the nineteenth century. The industry, which was conductedon a large scale, reached the height of its prosperity between1810 and 1820. The sealers had to suffer great hardships, butthey were attracted by the lucrative trade, and large numbers ofseals were slaughtered in the race for wealth. Captain T. IMusgrave, in his interesting journal entitled CastAway on the Auckland Islands, published in 1866. gives detailedaccounts of the seals habits. Dealing with the sea lion, hesays:— The females are of a grey, golden butf, or beautifulsilver colour, sometimes spotted like the leopard, and they arecalled tiger seals. Their fur is about an inch long, not verysoft, but very thick, and particularly sleek and smooth. The 44 THE ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND males are unifornily of a blackish grey colour. The fur and skinof the male are superior to those of the female, being muchthicker. On the neck and shoulders the male has athiclfer, longer, and much coarser coat of

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