214 GREY SEAL. 



On the hind feet, the first and fifth toes are nearly 

 equal, the rest shorter. The claws of the fore feet 

 are large, carinate above, concave beneath ; those 

 of the hind feet smaller and depressed. The mys- 

 tachial bristles are flattened and even; the pile short. 

 The fore part of the head is brown, the top light 

 yellowish-grey; the hind neck, and an obscurely 

 defined space along the back, including the tail, dull 

 brown, the rest dull yellowish-grey. 



THE GREY SEAL. 



Phoca Gryphus. FABR. 



Muzzle very deep, outline of forehead straight ; grinders 

 distant, direct, conical, compressed, destitute of anterior 

 and posterior tubercles; pile yellowish-grey, mottled with 

 dusky. 



Phoca Gryphus, Fabr. Skr. Naturh. Selsk. I. p. 167 ; Hali- 

 choerus griseus, Nilsson, Skand. Fn. I. p. 577 J Halichoerus 

 Gryphus, Bell, Brit. Quadr. 278. 



THE Grey Seal, which attains a much larger size 

 than the common species, and is at once distinguish- 



