7. PAGOMYS. 23 



1. Pagomys foetidus. Hinged Seal. 



Back blackish ; on it, or on its side, there are largish, oval, whitish, 

 thin rings (from 11" to 2" long) ; the circle round the eyes is of one 

 colour ; the hairs of the beard are thin and brown ; the grinders 

 rather far apart, and straight as regards the margin ; fur short, crisp, 

 recurved at the tip ; lower jaw dilated and inflexed beneath in front. 



Young greenish black (not eyed like the adult), beneath paler. 



Phoca foetida, Midler, Znol. Dan. Prodr. viii. ; O. Fahr. Fauna Groenl. 



13; Fischer, Syn. 577; Gray, Griffitlis A. K. v. 178. /f/^^ ^^^.^ ^ :IS~J ■ 

 Phoca hispida (part.), Erxl, Syst. 589. /a ■ 13 ^- liq. 



Phoca hispida, O. Fahr. Shrirt. Nat. Selsk. i. 74. t. 12. f. 1 (Ikull). ' 



Phoca Bothnica, Gmelin, S. N. i. 63. 



Callocephalua fojtidus et C. hispidus, Gray, Cat. Seals B. M. 23. 

 ? Phoca coucolor, Dekay, N. H. Neio York, 54. 

 ? Phoca equestris, Pallas, Zool. Rosso- Asiat. iii. 40 ; Schrenck,' Aviur- 



Lande, i. 182. t. 9. f. 1, 2 ( d' ), f. 3 ( J ), uniform-coloured. 

 Phoca fasciata, Shaw, Zool. 

 Phoca annellata, Nihson, Skand. Fauna, i. 362. t. 38 ; Thienem. Nat. 



Bemcrk. 83. t. 9-12 ; Bidl. Sci.. Nat. v. 261 ; Wieymann, Arch. vii. 



312; Gainiard, Voyage Ishnde, t. 11. f. 7; Ball, Sketches Brit. Seals, 



1. 11. f. 36 (skull), cop. Thienemann ; liadde, Reisenin Suden von Ost- 



Sibirien, 1862, i. 296. t. 1-3 (animal, skidl, and other bones). 

 Phoque commime, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. iv. t. , cop. Hamilton, 



Seals, t. 4. 

 Callocephalus discolor, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 545 ; Mem. 



Mm. xi. 186. 

 Phoca (Callocephalus) hispida, F. Cuvier, Mem. 3Ius. xi. 189. t. 12. 



f. 3, g, h, i (skuU) ; Gaimard, Voy. Isl. 3Iamm. 1. 11. f. 1, 2 (sluill). 

 Phoca discolor. Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 177. 

 Phoca Frederici, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 416. 

 ? Phoca Schreberi, Lesson, Diet. Cl,ass. H. N. xiii. 414 (part.). 

 Callocephalus hispidus (part.), F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 547. 

 Callocephalus annellatus, Riippell, Verz. 107 ; Gray, Zool. E. cS'- T. 3. 

 ? Ribbon Seal, Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 105. 

 Kuma of the Tugunsen, near Baikal. 

 Nerpa of the Russians. 



Inhab. North Sea. England, Nilsson. Lake Baikal. . 



a. Skin: stuffed. J kLt( t«- 



h. Specimen : stuffed. North Sea. ."^ / ^ 



c. Skull of specimen 6. \A/hi^teU Ut^cj . 



d. Specimen: stuffed. North Sea. /^tuc/,- iu oUt\^-ne^ 



e. SkuU of specimen d. ^£^^ ,^ ^ ^^ 



Herr Gustav Eadde gives the measurements of three skulls of Phocn -M^ 

 vituJina from the East Sea, one Phoca Caspiea from the Caspian, and 

 four 7'. annellata — three from the East Sea and one from I-ake Baikal 

 (see o]i. cit. p. 301). 



We have received a Ringed Seal (Pagomys fctiJus) that was born 

 in the Zoological Gardens and died soon after its birth. "■ It was 

 entirely covered with closely-set, well-developed fur of a silver-grey 

 colour, being rather browner on the u])per surface. It is 2 feet 

 8 inches long, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail ; the fore 

 paws arc 6, the hinder 8 inches long, and the latter arc 7 inches 



