SEALS. 27 
Ath long, the Ist and 5th shorter, nearly equal; palate with a 
semicircular edge behind. 
Skull. Forehead arched ; lower jaw with the front edge of the 
lower side rather dilated and inflexed; grinders small, far apart, 
often much worn. 
Females. Teats 4. 
Phoca barbata. Skull, grinder and palate. 
Phoca, sp., Linn. &c. 
Phoca, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 
Callocephalus, sp., F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. xi. 1827. 
1. PHocA BARBATA. LEPORINE SEAL. 
Male. Black, belly yellowish, black dotted. Female, beneath 
grey. 
Phoca barbata, Fab. Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. i. 139-159. t. 13. f. 3, 
skull; Faun. Grenl. 15; Mill. Zool. Dan. Prod. vin. ; Nilsson, 
Scand. Faun. 1. 374; Wiegm. Arch. vii. 317; Thienem. Nat. 
Bemerk. i. t. 1, 2, 3, t. 4, skull; Bull. Sci. Nat. v. 261; F. Cuv. 
Mém. Mus. xi. 184. t. 12. f. 4, k,l, m; Gray, Cat. Osteol. 
Spec. B. M.32; Zool. Erebus & Terror ; Griffith, A. K. v. 178; 
Fischer, Syn. 240; Blainv. Osteog. Phoca, t. 9, dentition ; 
2 Temm. Fauna Japon. 
Callocephalus barbatus, F. Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 547; 
Riippell, Verz. 167. 
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