SKA-LTONS, AND SEA-BEARS. 15 



S2'^d. Skull, nearly perfect : 10^ inches long. 



Antarctic seas (Antarctic Expedition). 46. 4. 25, 



Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



U. OMMATOPHOCA, Gray, Cat. ^eah Sf Whahs, p. 13; Suppl. p. 4. 

 Nasal bones united, very long, narrow, attenuated behind. 



1. Ommatopuoca llossir. Gray, Cat. Seah Sf Whales, p. 14. 



Animal, stuffed. 



324 a. Skeleton. Skull broken (fig. 9). (PL XI.) 43. 11. 25. 4. 



Ommatophoca Rossii, Gray, Voy. Ereh. <§• Terr. pi. vii. (animal), 

 ])1. viii. tigs. ], 2, 4 (skuli); Cut. Mamm. B. M., Seals, p. 19, f. 6; 

 Cat. Seats Jj- Whales, p. 13, f. 4 (skull). 



Antarctic seas. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Fig. 0. 



324c. Skeleton and skull. 



Antarctic seas. 

 3246. Skull, nearly complete. 43. 11. IG. 1. 



Ommatophoca Rossii, Gray, Voy. Ereh. ^~ Terr. pi. viii. figs. 8, 5. 



Antarctic seas. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty 



III. Nose transversely wrinkled: male tvith a dilatile appendaye. Skull: 

 nose-hole large ; cutting-teeth * , conical ; grinders | or | , crown roundish, 

 with swollen roots and small simply plated crowns with a central ridge. 

 Sea-elephants. 



The skulls of the young and old specimens are very much alike ; 

 the noses of the males are broadly dilated, of females narrower. 



