126 African Zoolofjy. 



Lugx, Aristot. Hist. Anirn. II. c. 7- «• 31. Caracal a long 

 queue, BiifF. Snpp. Fclis Caracal. Cuv. Ann. du AJus. x'lv. 

 p 154 'lh\iuh. Mem. ■:b I' A, ad. dc Pitirsh. \l\ 305 Roodc- 

 Kal of Ik:- iUpe Cu/onisia. 



Genus Otaria. Peron. 



Incisors %. canims \\. molars %\,— 'i^. Crowns of molars 

 with one priricipal toi)ic d point and a little conical lobe before 

 and behind if. Head shcrl and broad; txternal cars distinct. 



Ot via Peronii, Dcsm. (Pcron's Sea-Bear.) Above, the 

 surface colour is very obscure red-grey or dull iron-grey, 

 lightest on the head and posterior part of back ; the under sur- 

 face of neck and breast the same colour with an indistinct 

 greenish tint; belly inclined to rufous; extremities rufous; 

 upper lip and space immediately behind angles of mouth, dull 

 white. Throu:;h the red-grey a darker tint is visible and the 

 hairs when reversed, or otherwise separated, are found to be 

 whitish towards their bases, blockish in the middle and reddish 

 prey at the points ; the woolly hair is a pale smoky brown. 

 The membrane connecting the toes of the fore feet sli^'htly 

 scolloped at its anterior termination ; the extrcmiJics of the 

 toes with rudimentary nails; the membrane of the hinder feet 

 terminated in five lobes, and all the toes armed with nails, the 

 three middle ones most distinct. Length from nose to base of 

 tail about ei^ht feet ; length of tail abimt five inches. 



'I'iie young of tliis species when between two and three feet in 

 length, is nearly quite black- 

 Inhabits the seas about the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Phoca pusilla, Lin.? P. Peronii, Bodd. Lhm. Petite 

 Plioqiie, Butf. Sea Dog of tha Cape Coloms's. 



Ohs Perhaps the Pliooi pusilla of Linnaeus may be the youn.' of this 

 species, and if so, the name ought to sta^id Otaria pu^illu, instead of 

 Otaria Peronii. 



Order RODENTIA. 



Two large incisors in each jaw, separated from the molars by 

 a vacant space, the canines being wanting ; molars with flat 

 crowns or blunt tubercles. Lower jaw articulated by a longi- 

 tudinal condyle ; orbits not separated from the temporal fossae ; 

 zigomatic arches small; toes variable in number, unguiculatcd; 

 stomach simple ; intestiues long; coecum large. 



Fam. SCIURID^. 



Genus SciUEUs. Linn. 

 Incisors ?» ca7)ines g I, molars « J, — 22. Upper ir<cisors fat 

 in front and wedge'Shaped at (heir points: the lower pointed 



