36 SEALS. 
12. CysTOPHORA. 
Nose of the male witha large compressed hood, extending to — 
the back of the head; muzzle very broad, hairy; nostrils large; 
muzzle of the skull broad, narrowed on each side in front; fore- _ 
head flat; palatine bone broad, square; hair elongate, cylin- 
drical ; whiskers flat, waved ; claws 5-5, distinct. 
Cystophora, Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, 4. 
Cystophora, sp., Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837; Scand. Fauna ; 
Wiegm. Arch. vii. 326. 
Mirounga, part., Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 463. 
Stemmatopus (Stemmatope), F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. 196. t. 13, 
1827; Dict. Sci. Nat. lix. 464; Fischer, Syn. 230. 
The young is like the young of Pagophilus grenlandicus im 
external appearance, but it is easily known from that species b 
the hairiness of the muffle between the nostrils, and by the teet 
Cystophora cristata. Skull. 
not being lobed, but only plaited on the surface. See also Nilsson, 
Wiegm. Arch. vii. 320. 
1. CysToPpHORA CRISTATA. HoopDED SEAL. 
Outer cutting teeth and the canines narrow, compressed. 
Phoca cristata, Eral. Syst. 590; F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 196. 
t. 13. f. 3; Fab. Nat. Selsk. Skri. i. 120. t. 12.f. 2; Dekay, 
