8 SEALS. 
14. Orarta. Muzzle broad, high in front; forehead rather 
convex; occiput high; cutting teeth ¢, upper and outer one 
very large, like canines; grinders of adult with very large 
roots, and small compressed lobed crown; palate-bone — 
rather wider behind than in front, long, extending nearly to” 
the articulation of the jaws behind ; lower jaw broad, dilated — 
in front and behind at the angle; the upper jaw elongate, — 
and dilate with age. q 
Sect. I. Grinders ss two-rooted ; ears none; toes simple, of 
the fore-feet short, of the hind-feet unequal, the outer on 
each side longest, the middle shortest, the palms and soles — 
hairy. 
The skull has no post-orbital process nor alisphenoid canal. — 
The mastoid process is swollen, and seems to form part of the — 
auditory bulla.— Turner. 
Monachus albiventer. Fore and hind feet. 
Phoca, Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 175, 1827. 
Phoca, Sect. I., F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. xi.; Nilsson, Wiegm. 
Arch. vii. 306; Scand. Fauna, n. xx... 4 
Phocide seu Brachidontia, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 36, 1828. 
Phoques dents racines multiples, F. Cuvier, Dent. Mamm. 116. 
t. 38, 1825. ‘o 
Phocina, part., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, 88. ts 
