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Title: The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911
Subjects: Marine mammals Cetacea Sealing Whaling Whales Dolphins
Publisher: San Francisco, J.H. Carmany New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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a lighter shade. Eight or ten bristle-likehairs were present upon or near the upper lid of the eye, and constituted the eye-brows. The pup, whose measurements are given above, had forty-six whiskers onone side of its face, and forty-two on the other, and ten frizzly hairs over eacheye. Its color was a dark brown, or nearly a chestnut shade. The color of the adult Sea Elephant is a light brown, when its thin short hairis grown to full length ; but, immediately after shedding, it becomes like that ofthe land elephant, or of a bluish cast. The average thickness of its skin is fullyequal to that of the largest bullock. A fat bull, taken at Santa Barbara Island, bythe brig Marry Helen, in 1852, was eighteen feet long, and yielded two hundred andten gallons of oil. Round the under side of the neck, in the oldest males, theanimal appears to undergo a change with age ; the hair falls off, the skin thickensand bocomes wrinkled—the furrows crossing each other, producing a checkered Plate JXX.
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C. M. Scammon. del. SEA-ELEPHANT. (MACRORHINUS ANGUSTIRO STRIS.) GILL. 1 MALE. 2 FEMALE.

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