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MIROUNGA. 



FIG. LXXX. MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS. SEA-ELEPHANT. 



incurved; group of bristles over each eye; hind flippers emarginate, 

 hairy, without nails. 



Color. Light brown generally, becoming bluish after the hair is 

 shed. 



Measurements. Total length, male, 18-20 feet. Female, total 

 length, 9 to 10 feet; length of posterior flippers, i foot to i foot 10 

 inches; fore flippers, i foot 2 inches to i foot 5 inches; tail, 2 feet 

 2% inches; tip of nose to corner of mouth, % inch. Skull: male; 

 occipito-nasal length, 245; Hensel, 282; palatal length, 141; from 

 anterior edge of intermaxillae to pterygoid hamuli, 205; greatest 

 breadth of zygomata, 223; mastoid breadth, 182; length of nasals, 

 57; interorbital constriction, 40; greatest width of braincase, 50; 

 length of lower jaw, 239 ; anterior edge of ramus to last molar, 82. 



