Ifi PHOCIPjE. 



single thick conical root; all the rest have tsvo rather diverging 

 roots, di\d(le(i nearly to the crown ; the hinder tooth in each jaw is 

 rather the smallest. Symphysis of the lower jaw short. 



Body tapering behind. The fore limbs moderate, rather elongate ; 

 the toes are rather larger than the Avrist, and each furnished with 

 a small nearly terminal claw. The hind limbs are rather large, of 

 two nearly equal lobes, destitute of any claws ; the three middle 

 toes small, tapering. 



The fur close-set, short, without any under-fur ; hairs flattened, 

 tapering at the tip to a point. 



, In the young skull the grinders are well developed, while the 

 cutting-teeth are small and far apart ; the hinder grinders have four 

 lobes where they have only three in the adult. 



Mr. MacMurtrie, in his translations of Cu^•ier, erroneously adds to 

 the generic character in the text of the author, " but with single 

 roots ;" this is repeated in the reprint of the American edition pub- 

 lished by Orr, i. 98. 



Dr. Knox observes, " Teeth, -f . f . ^=32 : the two lower middle 

 incisors peculiar. Vertebrse : — cranial, 4 ; cervical, 7 ; dorsal, 14 ; 

 lumbar, 6; sacral, 3; coccygeal, 13=47. 



" The nostrils opened much after the manner of the Cetacea, in 

 the form of elongated fissures, one inch from the extremity of the 

 snout ; the pelvic extremities very large and far back ; tail extremely 

 short. The skin was hairy. The stomach contained numerous fish- 

 bones, a few feathers (gulls'), aild some considerable portions of a 

 pale-green, broad-leaved, marine Fucus ; thousands of a small, hard, 

 round, white worm (parasitical) pervaded all parts of the intestines. 

 The intestinal tube measured 71 feet 10 inches : caput caecum, 1 inch 

 9 lines : diameter of small intestines, 1 inch ; of large intestines, 1 inch 

 6 lines. Liver weighed 14 lbs. ; kidneys, 2 lbs. each ; spleen, 1 lb. ; 

 heart, 6 lbs. The arch of the aorta gave off" an extremely short 

 innooninata, which di\dded it into a right carotid and subclavian, 

 and left carotid ; the left subclavian came off" separately. It resembles 

 Tiedemann's third variety, pi. 3 (copy published in Edinburgh)." 



Inhab. Antarctic Ocean. 



Stenorhvnchus (Stenorhynque), F. Cnv. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxxix. ; Mhn. 



Mus. xi. 190 ; Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 403 ('1829) ; Nilssm, Wiepn. Areh. 



vii. 307; Skand. Fauna; Gray, Zool. Ercb. 8f Terror, Mamm. ; Cat. 



Seals B. M. 0, 11. 

 Phoca, sp., Home; Blainville; F. Cuv. Dents des Majum. t. 



1. Stenorhynchus Leptonyx. Sea Leopard. 



Grey, paler beneath, with small black spots on the sides of the 

 neck and body, and with a few smaller white spots on the sides ; 

 upper part of the hinder limbs dark, pale-marbled. 



Phoca I^eptonyx, Mainv. Journ. Phi/s. xci. 288, 1820 ; Desm. Mamm. 

 247, from Home's speeimen ; Cur. Oss. Foss. v. 208. t. 18. f. 2 ; 

 Gray, GriJptlCs A. K. v. 178 ; Bhdnv. Osteocfr. Phoea, 1. 1, ct t. 4. f. , 

 skull (Mils. Paris) ; /-'. Cuvier, Dents des Mamm. 1 IH. t. 88 a. 



Seal from New Georgia, Hotne, PJiil. Trans. 1822, 240. t. 29, skull. 



