Crossword-Solution: OTARIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Thus the male of the Otaria nigrescens of the southern hemisphere is of a rich brown shade above; whilst the female, who acquires her adult tints earlier in life than the male, is dark-grey above, the young of both sexes being of a deep chocolate colour.

Allen, J.A., vigour of birds earliest hatched; effect of difference of temperature, light, etc., on birds; colours of birds; on the relative size of the sexes of Callorhinus ursinus; on the name of Otaria jubata; on the pairing of seals; on sexual differences in the colour of bats.

Murie, J., on the reduction of organs; on the ears of the Lemuroidea; on variability of the muscles in the Lemuroidea; basal caudal vertebrae of Macacus brunneus imbedded in the body; on the manner of sitting in short-tailed apes; on differences in the Lemuroidea; on the throat-pouch of the male bustard; on the mane of Otaria jubata; on the sub-orbital pits of Ruminants; on the colours of the sexes in Otaria nigrescens.

Still another species, the sea-lion (_Otaria jubata_), furnishes the natives of Tierra del Fuego with an acceptable article of food, but like the _Phoca lupina_ it is becoming scarce.

Hind-feet with subequal toes, the fifth slightly the largest, with cutaneous lobes projecting beyond the ends as in _Otaria_; first and fifth with minute flattened nails; second, third and fourth with large, elongated, subcompressed pointed nails.