[330] ‘Traité de l’Héréd. Nat.’ tom. ii. 1850, p. 296.

[331] ‘Amœnitates Acad.’ vol. iv. 1788, p. 160.

[332] Owen, ‘Anatomy of Vertebrates,’ vol. iii. p. 585.

[333] Ibid. p. 595.

[334] See, for instance, Major W. Ross King (‘The Sportsman in Canada,’ 1866, p. 53, 131) on the habits of the moose and wild reindeer.

[335] Owen, ‘Anatomy of Vertebrates,’ vol. iii. p. 600.

[336] Mr. Green, in ‘Journal of Linn. Soc.’ vol. x. Zoology, 1869, p. 362.

[337] C. L. Martin, ‘General Introduction to the Nat. Hist. of Mamm. Animals,’ 1841, p. 431.

[338] ‘Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere von Paraguay,’ 1830, s. 15, 21.

[339] On the sea-elephant, see an article by Lesson, in ‘Dict. Class. Hist. Nat.’ tom. xiii. p. 418. For the Cystophora or Stemmatopus, see Dr. Dekay, ‘Annals of Lyceum of Nat. Hist. New York,’ vol. i. 1824, p. 94. Pennant has also collected information from the sealers on this animal. The fullest account is given by Mr. Brown, who doubts about the rudimentary condition of the bladder in the female, in ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.’ 1868, p. 435.