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Pile. 19. Ceriepiimii mopcNoil KO nil:.
19. "fiorthern fur seal.
The zoological length or adult males averaes 200 cm, and
their maximum weight is 300 kg; adult females attain a length 02
130 cm and a weight of 65 kg . .1ups from two-and-a-half to three
months old are fro,. 60 to 75 cm long and weigh from 6 to 13 kg.
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111/ Adult males are mostly einnamon-brown in colour; tneir hair 64 -
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•is coarse, and their underfur fairly sparse; in tne occipital, cervical,
and anterior dorsal regions the hair is long, forming a mane. .
The basic colour of adult females is dark-grey in the - water, but
after they got dirty on shore tir colour becomes yellewiï..h-brown
or dark-brown; they have no man. 1,ew-born pups .are covered with
• stiff black uuard-hairs, under which there is fairly thin underfur.
The colour of fur eal at the age of three montns (after moulting)
and older is silvery-grey, and their fur is dense. Lacelor seals . •
-- males, aged from two to five years -- resemble females and are
similarly coloured. _he body colouring of fiv-year-Old males is
darker, and t-:e mane begins to show; in hix-year-olds daik-grey
predominates in Ine colouring.
Pur 1:eals aro found in tn nortnern l art, of .11E; lacific Ocean,
including the .â?ring 'job., the Sea of Okhoti .., and uhe bea of Japan..
(Pi. 20). As a rule . the z do no go fartner hortn GL:an tne Lotuandorride
Islands aod une lribylov Islands, but tney .
are fairly common
01: the east coa:-t of Kamchatka; occasional. individunis wander into