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6. CALLOCEPHALUS. 
Muzzle rather narrow; whiskers waved: fingers gradually 
shorter. Palate angularly notched behind; hair subcylindrical, 
under-fur thin; web between the hind toes hairy. 
Inhab. Northern Ocean. 
Callocephalus (Callocephale), part., F. Cuv. Mém. Mus. xi. 182, 
1827 ; Dict. Sci. Nat. lix. 463, 1829; Fischer,Syn. 230; Gray, 
Zool. Erebus & Terror, Mamm. 
- Phoea, sp., Linn.; Fleming, Phil. Zool. i. 187. Nilsson, Scand. 
Fauna, xx. 
Fig. 7. 
Callocephalus vitulinus. Skull, grinder and palate. 
* Lower jaw short, branches rounded beneath, and diverging 
from the front. 
1. CALLOCEPHALUS VITULINUS. COMMON SEAL. 
Finely sprinkled, blackish and whitish, and with greyish brown 
“and yellowish grey along the back, usually unspotted and black- 
ish ; the underside of the body whitish ; a widish, paler, unspotted 
ring round each eye, and over each eye a small roundish spot, 
_ from which a bristle proceeds ; edge of lower jaw rounded below 
in front, with a short symphysis; grinders large, rather crowded 
and oblique. 
_ Phoca vitulina, Linn. ; Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837 ; Scand. 
Fauna; Wiegmann, Arch. vii. 316; Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 
