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HAND-LIST OP SEALS, MORSES, 



Fischer observed their un-Seal-like characters wlien he inquired if 

 they should not be arranged with EnJn/dris ; yetQuoy and (iaimard 

 figure the two species of this genus which they observed with elon- 

 gate bodies and in the attitude of the common Seals {PJiockhv) ; 

 and Gould did the same with the Australian species (I believe he 

 had never seen the species alive). 



I. Skull toith the palate elongate, produced behind. The opening of the in- 

 ternal nostrils in a line just before the condyles. Grinders |-^. Sea- 

 lions. 



Tribe 1. OTARIINA, Gray,Suppl Cat. Seals ^ Whales, p. 12. 



1. OTARTA, Gratj, Cat. Seoh 4" Whales, p. .57; Sirppl. p. 12. 



Fig. i:i 



Feet of Sea-lion. 



The brain-cavity is large and oblong in the skulls of the younger 

 animals, and nearly as long as the fiice and palate ; but these parts 

 enlarge as the animal reaches the adult age, and when quite adult 

 the length from the back edge of the condyle is only half, or nearly 

 half, of the length of the palate. They are figured as Otaria leonina, 

 F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. t. xv. no. 2 ; Otaria Jt(hata, Blainv. Osteogr. 

 t. iii. & vi. ; Otaria Qodeffroyi, Peters, Monatsb. 18(36, p. 267, t. i. 



* The head broad, shoii. The lower jaw broad behind, bouml an the sides, 

 rounded in front. The lotver edge from the angle to the gonyx as long 

 as the jaws are wide at the angle. Lower margin e.rpanded in the 

 adult. 



\. Otaria jubata, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals ^f Whales, p. 13. 



Otaria leonina, Gray, Cat, Seals tS" Whales, p. 59. 



