CATALOGUE 



SEALS AND WHALES. 



Family PHOCID^. 



Cutting-teeth | or | or A or |, conical or truncated ; canines 

 conical, sometimes elongated ; grinders |^ or ||, more or less lobed 

 or plaited. Head rounded ; face more or less produced ; ears, very 

 small, rudimentary, or none external ; eyes large, only slightly 

 convex. Body elongate, hairy, attenuated behind; teats 2 or 4, 

 ventral. Feet short, enveloped in the body ; the fore feet short ; 

 fingers five- clawed ; the hind feet directed backwards, and close 

 together ; toes five-clawed. Tail very short, depressed, sharp-edged 

 on each side. 



Fera (partim), Linn. S. N. i. 55. 



Bruta (part.), Linn. S. N. i. 48. 



Phoca, Linn. S. N. i. 55 ; Penmnt, Syn. Quad. 380 ; Gray, Griffith's 



A. K. V. 175. 

 Phocadre et Trichecidse, Gray, Lond. Med. JRepos. 1821, 302. 

 Phocidffi et Trichechidffi, Grai/, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 

 Phocidfc, Gray, Zoo/. Ereb. fy Terror ; Cat. Seals B. M.\, 1850. 

 Mammiferes a nageoires, Ampliibies, Besm. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxiv. 



34, 1804. 

 Amphibia, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, 302 ; Latr. Fam. R. A. 



51, 1830. 

 Phocaceema, Nilsson, Vetensk. Ahad. Handl. 1837, 235 ; lUuyn. Figurer 



Skand. Fauna, 1840, transl. by Dr. Peters, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 301. 

 (Pinnipedia) Ruderfusse, Illii/er, Prodr. 138, 1811; Riippell, Verz. 



Senck. Samml. 167, 1845. 

 Les Phoques et les Morses, F. Cm: Diet. Sci. Nat. Ux. 463, 465, 1829 ; 



Duvernoy, Tab. R. A. 

 Tetrapterygia, J. Brookes, Cafal. Mas. 36, 1828. 

 Ursi (part), Wagler, K. S. Amph. 27, 1830. 

 Cynomorpba (Phoca et Otaria), I^dr. Fam. R. A. 51, 1825. 

 Brocha (Morse), Latr. Fam. R. A. 52, 1825. 

 Phoques, F. Cuv. Dents des Mamm. 113, 1825. 



