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SEALS. 23 
2. CALLOCEPHALUS HISP1DUS. RINGED SEAL. 
** Grinders rather more simple than those of C. vitulina; skull 
more depressed ; intermaxillaries advanced between the maxilla 
and the nasal for one-third their length; frontal and palatines 
not united in the orbits; palate angular behind.” —F. Cuvier. 
Phoca (Callocephalus) hispida, F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. 11.189. t. 12. 
f. 3, 9, h,i, skull; Gaimard, Voy. Isl. Mamm. t. 11. f. 1, 2, skull. 
Inhab. North Sea. 
** Lower jaw dilated and infleced beneath in front. 
3. CALLOCEPHALUS F@TIDUS. RINGED SEAL. 
Back blackish; on it or on its side there are largish oval, whitish, 
thin rigs (from 13” to 2" long); the circle round the eyes is of 
one colour ; the hairs of the beard are thin and brown; the grind- 
ers rather far apart, and straight as regards the margin ; fur short, 
crisp, recurved at the tip; lower jaw dilated and inflexed beneath 
in front. 
Young greenish black (not eyed like the adult), beneath paler. 
Phoca foetida, Miller, Zool. Dan. Prod. viii.; O. Fab. Fauna 
Gren. 13; Fischer, Syn. 577; Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 178. 
Phoca hispida, Fab. Serift. Natur. Hist. 
Phoca equestris, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. ui. 40. 
Phoca annellata, Nilsson, Scand. Fauna, i. 362. t. 38; Thienem. 
Nat. Bemerk. 83. t. 9-12; Bull. Sci. Nat. v. 261; Wiegmann, 
Arch. vu. 312; Gaimard, Voyage Island. t. 11. f.7; Ball, 
Sketches Brit. Seals, t. 11. f. 36, skull. 
Phoque commune, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog.iv.t. , cop. Ha- 
milton, Seals, t. 4. 
Callocephalus discolor, F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 545 ; 
Mém. Mus. xi. 186. 
Phoca discolor, Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 177. 
Phoca Frederici, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xiii. 416. 
? Phoca Schreberi, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xii. 414 part. 
Phoca hispida (part.), Erzl. Syst. 589. 
Callocephalus hispidus (part.), F. Cuv. D. S. Nat. xxxix. 547. 
Callocephalus annellatus, Riippell, Verz. 167; Gray, Z.E. & T.3. 
? Ribbon Seal, Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 165. 
Inhab. North Sea. England, Nilsson. 
. Skin (stuffed). 
. Specimen stuffed. North Sea. 
Skull of specimen 0. 
. Specimen stuffed. North Sea. 
Skull of specimen d. 
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