SEALS. 13 
middle incisors peculiar. Vertebra :—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, 1 inch from the extremity 
of the snout; the pelvic extremities very large and far back ; tail 
extremely short. The skin was hairy. The stomach contamed 
numerous fish-bones, a few feathers (gulls’), and some consider- 
able portions of a pale green, broad-leaved, marie Fucus: 
thousands of a small, hard, round, white worm (parasitical) per- 
vaded all parts of the intestines. The intestinal tube measured 
71 feet 10 inches: caput cecum, 1 inch 9 lines: diameter of 
_ small intestines, 1 inch; of large imtestimes, 1 inch 6 lines. 
Liver weighed 14 Ibs. ; kidneys, 2 lbs. each; spleen, 1 lb.; heart, 
6 lbs. The arch of the aorta gave off an extremely short inno- 
_ minata, which divided it into a right carotid and subclavian, and 
left carotid; the left subclavian came off separately : it resembles 
Tiedemann’s third variety, pl. 3 (copy published in Edinburgh).”’ 
Stenorhynchus (Stenorhynque), F. Cuv. Dict. Hist. Nat. xxxix. ; 
Mem. Mus. xi. 190; Dict. Sci. Nat. lix. 463 (1829); Nilsson, 
Wiegmann Arch. vii. 307 ; Scand. Fauna; Gray, Zool. Ereb. 
& Terror, Mamm. 
Phoca, sp. Home, Blainville, F. Cuv. Dent. Mamm. t. 
Inhab. Antarctic Ocean. 
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 hmbs dark, pale-marbled. 
Phoca Leptonyx, Blainv. Journ. Phys. xci. 288, 1820; Desm. 
Mamm. 247, from Home’s specimen; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 208. 
t. 18.f.2; Gray, Griffith, A.K.v.178; Blainv. Ostéogr. Phoca, 
t.1 & t.4.f. , skull (Mus. Paris); F. Cuvier, Dent. Mamm. 
118. t. 38 a. 
Seal from New Georgia, Home, Phil. Trans. 1822, 240. t. 29, 
skull. 
Phoque quatriéme, Blainv. in Desm. Mamm. 243, note; see Cuv. 
Oss. Foss. v. 207. 
Stenorhynchus Leptonyx, F. Cuv. Dict. Se. N. xxxix. 549. t. 44; 
F. Cuv» Mém. Mus. xi. 190. t. 13. f. 1; Dent. Mamm. 118. 
t. 38 a; Nilsson, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 307 ; Scand. Fauna, t. ; 
Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, Mamm. t. 3, animal, t.4, skull ; 
Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M.31; Blainv. Ostéogr. Phoca, t. 5.£.9, 
teeth and skull. 
Phoca Homei, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xiii. 417. 
