34 SEALS. 
The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of 
bristles over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the 
muzzle ; the upper lip longer than the lower; the forehead con- 
vex; the nostrils of the male “are wrinkled, and can be blown 
up into a crest” (Forster), *‘ with an elongate tubular proboscis ” 
(Peron); of the female simple, rounded, with a hairy muffie 
between and around the edge of the nostrils. 
Cutting teeth 4, far apart, conical, the two middle upper smaller, 
the rest nearly equal; the grinders with large, swollen, subey- 
lindrical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown ; 
the hinder palatine bones short, transverse. 
The whiskers are very long and large, roundish, very slightly 
compressed, rather waved. 
The fore-feet are rather small, oblong, obliquely truncated, the 
wrist being nearly as long as the feet, with five elongated claws, 
the first the smallest; the hinder feet are moderate, the marginal 
toes upon each side large, rounded, the three middle ones very 
small, tapering; all clawless. The tail conical. 
Fur short, hair short, flat; broad and rounded at the tip in 
the adult, rather more taperimg in the young; hair on the lips 
rather longer, more slender and slightly curled. 
Inhab. the Southern Ocean. 
This genus has many characters in common with the Crested 
Seal of the North American Continent, but differs especially m 
the nose being provided with a proboscis, while in that genus it 
has a hood-like swelling proceeding up the nose to the back of 
the head. 
The male and female are so different in size that Lord Byron 
mistook them for mother and young.—Weddell, Voy. 84. 
Mirounga, part., Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 179, 1827. 
Morunga, Gray, Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 33; Zool. Erebus & 
Terror. 
Macrorhinus (Macrorhine), F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. xi. 200. t. 13, 
1827; Dict. Sci. Nat. lix. 464, 1829; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 230. 
Cystophora, part., Nilsson, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 324. 
Macrorhyna (misprint), Gray, Griffith, A. K. i. 180. 
Pallas (Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 106) describes the skull of this 
species. as the skull of a Sea Lion, brought from the Cape of 
Good Hope by Mr. Tulbagh. 
1. MoruncA ELEPHANTINA. The SEA ELEPHANT. 
A Sea Lion and Lioness from Juan Fernandez, Anson, Voy. 
round the World (1786), t. 122. t.19, copied; Pernetty, Voy. 
Isles Malouines, 1. 47. t. 9*. f. 1, and altered t. 8*. f. 1 ;— 
hence : 
