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HAND-LIST OF SEALS, MORSES, 



Animal, half-grown, stuffed. 



330 6. Skull (Tl. VII.), young, bones not knit. 



Northumberland, Fern Island. Presented by J. P. Selby, Esq. 



Animal, adult, stuffed. 



Northuinbc;rland, Fern Island. 



Mr. Stokes, who has observed these animals at St. David's Ilead, 

 says the pups are grey, as they grow they become spotted and 

 marbled with darker colour. The adults are blackish brown ; the 

 old males become bright bay, like a bay horse. 



7. MONACIIUS, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M., Seals, p. 8, f. 1 ; Cat. 

 Seals 6j- Whales, p. 8, f. 1 (bones of feet), Siq>2)l. p- 3. 

 P6large, Frederic Cuvter, Mem. Mns. xi. t. xxiii. no. 2 (skull). 



Monachus albiventer. 



