TECHNICAL HISTORY SPECIES. 435 



of which he says, " Inhabit most quarters of the globe, but in 

 greatest multitudes towards the North and the South ; swarm 

 near the Arctic circle, and the lower parts of South America, in 

 both oceans ; near the southern end of Terra del Fuego ; and even 

 among- the floating ice as low as south lat. 60. 21. Found in the 

 Caspian Sea, in the lake Aral, and lakes Baikal and Oron, which 

 are fresh waters. They are lesser than those which frequent 

 salt waters ; but so fat that they seem almost shapeless. In 

 lake Baikal some are covered with silvery hairs ; others are 

 yellowish, and have a large dark-colored mark on the hind part 

 of the back, covering almost a third of the body." 2. "Pied 

 Seal" (= Le Phoque a ventre blauc, Buffon, = 3Ionachus albiven- 

 tcr)', 3. "Mediterranean Seal" (= Phoca monaclius, Hermann, 

 = Monachus albiventer) ; 4. "Long-necked Seal" (of "Grew's 

 Museum, 95," and of Parsons = some indeterminable species of 

 Otary); 5. " Falkland Isle Seal" ( = Arctoceplialus austmlisA. 

 falUandicm, auct.); G. "Tortoise-headed Seal" ( = Tortoise- 

 headed Seal, Parsons, undeterminable); 7. "Eubbon Seal," 

 based on a description (?) and a drawing communicated to him 

 by "Doctor Pallas," of a mutilated skin received by the latter 

 ""' from one of the remotest Kuril islands." The drawing "is en- 

 graven on the title of Division III, Pinnated Quadrupeds." This 

 is a species described much later by Pallas as Phoca eguestris ; 

 8. "Leporine Seal" (== Phoca leporina, Lepechiu); 9. "Great 

 Seal" (= Phoca barbata, at least mainly); 10. "Bough Seal" 

 ( = Neitsek, Cranz ; Phoca liispicla, Schreber) ; 11. Porcine Seal, 

 (Phoca portina, Molina); 12. " Eared Seal " (described from a 

 specimen in Parkinson's Museum, from the Straits of Magellan, 

 and probably a young Otaria jubata); 13. "Hooded Seal" 

 (= Cystophora cristata, unmixed with any other species); 14. 

 "Harp Seal" (Phoca grcenlandica)} 15. "Little Seal" (= Le 

 petit Phoque, Buffon ; based on a specimen of a young Eared 

 Seal, originally supposed to have come from India undeter- 

 minable); 10. " Ursine Seal" (a compound of all the Sea-Bears 

 or Fur-Seals-); 17. " Bottle-nose Seal" (= Sea Elephant of the 

 Southern Seas. A good description is given of the external 

 characters of both sexes, that of the female being based on a 

 "well-preserved specimen in the Museum of the Boyal So- 

 ciety" the specimen previously described by Parsons under 

 the name Manatie!); 18. "Leonine Seal" (= a compound of 

 the Northern and Southern Sea Lions); 19. " Urigene Seal" 

 (= Phoca hqj-ina, Molina). 



