18 SEALS. 
1. MoNACHUS ALBIVENTER. Monk SEAL. 
Phoque a ventre blanc, Buffon, H. N. Supp. vi. t. 44; Cuw. R. A. q 
i. 166; Oss. Foss. v. 208. t. 17. f. 1, skeleton, f. 2, 345, skull; — 
Lobstein, Obs. Anat. Comp. Rangani, Opuse. Scient. 4 
re Monachus, Herm. Berl. Abh. iv. t. 12,13; Desm. Mamm. — 
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Phoca Hermanni, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xiii. | q 
Pelagios Monachus, F. Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 550; Ann. — 
Mus. xx.; Mém. Mus. xi. 193. t. 13, skull; Blainv. Ostéog. 
Phoca, t. - ae Pe y 
Pelagius Monachus, Nilsson, Scand. Fauna; Wiegm. Arch. viii. — 
309; Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror. . 
Monachus Mediterraneus, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837, 235. 
Phoca albiventer, Bodd. Elench. 170. 
Phoca bicolor, Shaw, Zool. i. 254. t. 70, 71. 
Phoca leucogaster, Peron. 
Phoca vitulina, Wolf, Abbild. i. 18. t. 4, good. 
Phogue Moine, F. Cuv. Ann. Mus. xx. 387. j 
2 Phoca Isodorei, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1843, 256; Echo Monde 4 
Savantes, 1843, 228 (from Isle D’Oleron). 
Pied Seal, Penn. Onn. Tie WAS 
Mediterranean Seal, Shaw, Zool. i. 255. 
Inhab. Mediterranean. 
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5. OMMATOPHOCA. 
Skull broad, depressed behind; muzzle very short, broad; 
orbits very large; grinders small, compressed, with a central — 
incurved lobe, and a small lobe on each side of it; fore-feet very — 
slightly clawed. a 
Head short, broad; ears small, with no internal conch; muz- — 
zle very short, rounded ; muffle hairy between and to the edge — 
of the nostrils ; nostrils ovate ; whiskers tapering, conical. $ 
Skull depressed, expanded behind ; orbits very large; muzzle © 
very short, broad, truncated in front, ‘high behind; petrose por- — 
tion of the vile tn bone convex. 
Cutting teeth 4, small, conical, sharply recurved at the tip; — 
grinders small, compressed, with a subcentral, rather large, broad, 
slightly incurved lobe, having a very small lobe on the inner side g 
of its front, and a larger conical one in the middle of its hinder ~ 
edge; the front grinder of each jaw is smaller and thicker, with ~ 
a single conical root, the rest all with two diverging roots to the © 
crown ; lower jaw rather slender, with a short symphysis in — 
front, ‘and rather narrow, with a thick rounded edge in the ~ 
hinder part of the lower edge in the place of the angle. | 
