1(>. PHOCA. 



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position which he has won by his hydrographic and scientific quali- 

 fications. 



10. PHOCA. 



lluzzle broad, short ; forehead convex ; whiskers smooth, taper- 

 ing ; ear-hole large ; fingers unequal, the third longest, second and 

 fourth long, the first and fifth shorter, nearly equal ; palate with a 

 semicircular edge behind. Forehead arched ; grinders small, far 

 apart, often much worn ; teeth small. The branches of the lower 

 jaw arched on the sides and wdde apart ; lower edge produced, form- 

 ing a blunt rugulose tubercle on the inner side behind the symphysis ; 

 the angle of the lower jaw with a rounded lobe on the inner side 

 above the basal tubercle. (Fig. 10.) 



Female. Teats 4. 



Inhab. Northern Seas. 



Phoca, sp., Linn. &c. 



Phoca, Gray, Zool. E.SfT.; Cat. Phocidce B. 31. 26. 



Callocephalus, sp., F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. 1827. 



Fio-. 10. 



Phoca barbata. Skull, grinder, and palate. 



1. Phoca barbata. Leporine Seal. 



Male. Black ; belly yellowish, black-dotted. Female. Beneath grey. 



Phoca barbata, O. Fahr. Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. i. 1-S9-159. 1. 13. f. 3 (skull) ; 

 Faun. Groenl. 15 ; Mull. Zool. Dan. Proclr. viii. ; Nilsson, Skand. 

 Faun. i. 374; Wiegm. Arch. vii. 817; Thienem. Nat. Bemerk. i. 

 t. 1, 2, 3, t. 4 (skull); B^dl. Set. Nat. v. 261; F. Cuv. Mem. 3Ius. 

 xi. 184. t. 12. f. 4, A;, /, m ; Gray, Cat. Osteol. ^ec. B. 31. 32 ; Zool. 

 Frebus §• Terror ; Griffith's A. K. v. 178 ; Fischer, 8i/n. 240 ; Blainv. 

 Osteoff. Phoca, t. 9 (dentition) ; ? Temm. Fauna Japon. 



