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A very large seal Macrorhinus proboscideus of the Antarctic seas much hunted for its oil It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis about a foot in length Another species of smaller size M angustirostris occurs on the coast of Lower California but is now nearly extinct