Zoological Society bulletin

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Identifier: zoologicalsociet55601newy (find matches)
Title: Zoological Society bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: New York Zoological Society
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: (New York) : New York Zoological Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eteen years. As the originalfifty-two specimens were recorded as four-year-olds when the Aquarium was first opened, wemay safely state the age of this specimen astwenty-one years. The basses in this particularcollection lived well and did not begin to dieoff until about twelve years ago, since whichtime they have slowly disappeared. Theabove record has probably never been ex-celled by any species of fish for length of lifein an aquarium. While it is known that the striped bass hasattained a weight of as much as one hundredpounds, and has often exceeded fifty pounds,none of those kept from ten to twenty yearsin the Aquarium ever exceeded twenty poundsin weight, and ceased growing several yearsago. The reason for this is not known, butit may be assumed that the species cannotreach its full development in captivity wherevariety of food and freedom of movementare necessarily restricted. The specimen has been sent to the Ameri-can Museum of Natural History. 1050 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN
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HAWAIIAN SEAL (Monachus schauinslandi) LAYSAN ISLAND A RARE SEAL MESSRS. A. L. C. Atkinson and W. A.Bryan of Honolulu have sent to theDirector of the Aquarium the follow-ing interesting notes relating to a species ofseal which is known only from a chain oflow, uninhabited, coral reefs lying some hun-dreds of miles northwest of the HawaiianIslands. This seal which was only made known toscience in 1905, belongs to the same genusas the two sub-tropical species of seals in-habiting the West Indies and the Mediter-ranean. It has been named Monachus schau-inslandi. There are no specimens of it inmuseums except the skull taken to Germanyby Dr. Schauinsland, and possibly some speci-mens in the Rothschild collection in England.Anything relating to it is, therefore, of interestto naturalists. Mr. Atkinson writes as follows:—I havehad a talk with a bird hunter who livedseveral years on Laysan Island and who isnow in Honolulu. He saw only a few hairseals around Laysan Island and shot aboutseven

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