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7. PAGOPHILUS. 
Palate truncated behind; fingers gradually shorter; muzzle 
_ rather produced ; hair dry, flat, close-pressed, without any under- 
_ fur; web between the hind-toes baldish; lower jaw dilated and 
- inflexed beneath in front, so as to close in the front part of the 
_ gullet; grinders rather distant. 
Inhab. Northern Ocean. 
Callocephalus §, F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. xi. 1827. 
Pagophilus (Subgen. of Callocephalus), Gray, Zool. Erebus & 
Terror, 3. 
1. PacorpuiLus GRG@NLANDICUS. Harp SEAL. 
Grey or whitish, with large and small black spots; hairs of the 
beard waved on the edges; cutting teeth diminish in size; the 
grinders separated, straight ; edge of the mouth oblique. Length 
4 to 5 feet. 
Until six or seven weeks old white, called White Coats at 
Newfoundland; at one year old they have small spots; at two 
years old they have large spots, and the males are called Bed 
Lampiers ; at three years old the males and females have the 
harp-shape band.—Jukes, 1. ec. 
Phoca Greenlandica, Miller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 8; Fab. Fauna 
Gren. 11; Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. 1. 87-157, ii. t. 12. f. 1, skull; 
Thienemann, Nat. Bemerk. t. 14-21; Bull. Sci. Nat. v.,261. 
t. 15 & 18, t. 19, skull; F. Cuv. Mém. Mus. xi. 186, t. 12. f. 2; 
Nilsson, Scand. Fauna, i. 370. t. 37, young; Wiegm. Arch. 
vii. 314; Gray, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. 91 ¢. t. 92; v.177; Ball, 
Sketches of British Seals, t. 11. f. 33, 38, skull (2?) from River 
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