14 SEALSe 
The Small-nailed Seal, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. 180. t. 11 (nails 
too large). a 
eater been aux Petits Ongles, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. & Pole 
ud, t. 9. 
Sea Leopard of the Whalers. 
Sea Bear of New Zealand, Knox in Letter. 
Phoca ursina, or Sea Bear, Pollach, N. Zealand. 
Inhab. Antarctic Ocean, on the packed ice. 
a. Skin. Adult. Stuffed. Antarctic Ocean. Presented by 
the Lords of the Admiralty from the Antarctic Expedition. 
b. Skin. Adult. Unstuffed. 
e. Skull. : 
d. Skull. Antarctic Seas. Antarctic Expedition. Presented — 
by the Admiralty. 
Skull figured Zool. Erebus & Terror, t.  . f. 
e. Skull. Presented by the Admiralty. 
_ _ f. Skeleton. Port Nicholson, New Zealand. Presented by _ 
Dr. Frederick Knox. 3 7 
g. Skull. Antarctic Seas. Presented by the Admiralty. ‘ 
h. Skull and bones of the body. Antarctic Seas. Presented 4 
by the Admiralty. 4 
a. Skull. Antarctic Seas. q 
Mr. Owen (Ann. N. H. 1843, 331) appears to think that this — 
animal is one-coloured, for he says the Sea Leopard is distin- _ 
guished from it ‘‘ by the spotted hide.” | 
3. LEPTONYX. 
Skull broad, depressed behind; muzzle short, broad; grinders 
subcompressed, with a small, subcentral, conical tubercle, anda — 
very small posterior one; the lower jaw narrow behind, without ~ 
any hinder angle; fore-feet clawed. 
Head flattened; muzzle broad, rather short, rounded; muffle — 
hairy between and to the edge of the nostrils; nostrils ovate; _ 
whiskers compressed, slightly waved; ears, no external conch. 
Skull slightly depressed, expanded behind; muzzle rather — 
short, broad, high above; orbits rather large: the petrose por- 
tion of the temporal bone convex, hemispherical. p 
Cutting teeth 4, conical, rather recurved, those of the upper — 
jaw largest; the middle in each jaw smaller; the outer upper — 
much larger. Canines “ large, conical, curved, rather com- 4 
pressed, upper largest. Grinders 2, moderate, rather far apart, a 
parallel to the edge of the jaw, compressed, with subcentral, — 
conical, prominent tubercle; the second, third and fourth, in — 
the more perfect specimens, with a small conical tubercle on the — 
