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Ito' 



44 PHOCID^. 



B. Enfs u-ith a siibci/Ii/idn'cfil, (listincf, external conch. Toes of the hind 

 feet ffi/heqiitil, xhort, irith lonij menitininvs at the end; fore feet Jin-like ; 

 •palm and xo/es bald, lon(/itiidiiia//_i/ i/rooved. Nose simple, with a rather 

 large callous mnjjie above and between the nostrils ; cxdting-teeth j, tipjjer 



often bijid; grinders ^^. 



Subfamily 5. ARCTOCEPHALINA. 



The skull has a postorbital process, an alisphcnoidal canal, the 

 mastoid process strong and salient, standing aloof from the auditory 

 bulla?. — Turner. 



Arctoceplialina, Gi-axj, Zool. Erebus S( Terror, 4 ; Turner, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1848, 88. 

 Otaria, Peron, Voi/. Terres Atistr. ii. 118 ; Dcsm. Mamm. 248 ; Fleming, 



Phil. Zool. ii. 187; Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 182 ; Nilssmi, Vet. Akad. 



Handl. 18.37 ; Skand. Fauna ; Wiegm. Arch. vii. 

 Phoca, § 3, F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi". 205. 

 Otariadc-e, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 36, 1828. 



Fia-. 15. 



Arctoceplialus Hookeri. Fore foot and hind foot. 



15. CALLORHINUS. 



The face short ; forehead convex, regularly rounded from the end 

 of the nasal bone to the middle of the vertex ; the nasal opening is 

 small; the palate rather concave, contracted behind, short, nearly 

 reaching the middle of the zygomatic arch. Lower jaw short, thick, 

 flattened, expanded beneath just in front of the condyle. 



Callorhinus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 357. 

 Arctoceplialus, § *, Grag, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 117. 

 Arctocephalus, sp., F. Cuvier. 



1. Callorhinus ursinus. Northern Far- Seal. 

 Adult male grey-black ; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with 

 a subterminal baud and a short grey tip ; under-fur short, woolly, 



