7. PAGOMYS. 23 



1. Pagomys fcetidus. Ringed 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, crisj), 

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



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



Phoca fo3tida, Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prodr. viii. j O. Fair. Fauna Grcenl. 



13 ; Fischer, Si/n. 577 ; Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 178. 

 Phoca hispida (part.), Frxl. Syst. 589. 



Phoca hispida, O. Fahr. Skrivi. Nat. Selsk. i. 74. t. 12. f. 1 (skidl). 

 Phoca Bothnica, G)nelin, S. N. i. 63. 



Calloceplialus fcetidus et C. hispidus, Gray, Cat. Seals B. M. 23. 

 ? Phoca concolor, Dchay, N. H. New York, 54. 

 ? Phoca equestris, Pallas, Zool. Rosso- Asiat. iii. 40 ; Schrenrk, Amur- 



Lande, i. 182. t. 0. f. 1, 2 ( c? ), f • 3 ( $ ), uniform-coloured. 

 Phoca fasciata, Slunv, Zool. 

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



Bemerk. 83. t. 9-12 ; Bnll. Sci. Nat. v. 261 ; Wiec/mann, Arch. \\\. 



312; Gaimard, Voyage Islande, t. 11. f. 7; Ball, Sketches Brit. Seals, 



1. 11. f. 36 (skull), cop. Tliienemann ; Badde, lieisen in Suden von Ost- 



Sibirien, 1862, i. 296. t. 1-3 (animal, skull, and other boues). 

 Phoque commune, F. Cuvier, 3famm. Lithog. iv. t. , cop. Hamilton, 



Seals, t. 4. 

 Calloceplialus discolor, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 545; 3Ieni. 



Mas. xi. 186. 

 Phoca (CaUocephalus) hispida, F. Cuvier, 3fem. 3fus. xi. 189. t. 12. 



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

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

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

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

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

 CaUocephalus aunellatus, RiippeU, Verz. 167 ; Gray, Zool. E. 8c T. 3. 

 ? Ribbon Seal, Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 165. 

 Kuma of the Tugunsen, near Baikal. 

 Nerpa of the Bassians. 



Inhab. North Sea. England, Nlls.'son. Lake Baikal. 



a. Skin : stuifed, 



h. Specimen : stuffed. North Sea. 



c. skull of specimen b. 



d. Specimen : stuffed. North Sea. 



e. Skull of specimen d. 



Herr Gustav Radde gives the measurements of three skulls oi Phoca 

 vitidina from the East Sea, one Phoca Caspica from the Caspian, and 

 four P. annellata — three from the East Sea and one from Lake Baikal 

 (see op. cit. p. 301). 



We have received a Ringed Seal (Pagonu/s fo'tidus) 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 upper surface. It is 2 feet 

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

 paws are 0, the hinder 8 inches long, and the latter are 7 inches 



