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tinct. It has been found by Mr Ball on the south 

 coast of Ireland. According to Mr Bell, there is a 

 specimen in the Bristol Institution which was taken 

 in the Severn ; Mr Edmonston gives notice of its 

 occurrence in Shetland.; I have seen two specimens 

 from Orkney, examined one in Harris, and have 

 reason to believe that it is not uncommon in the 

 Outer Hebrides. On the rock of Gaskir, twelve 

 miles from Harris, in the Atlantic, it is found on 

 shore in great numbers, along with its young, and 

 with the Common Seal, in the end of autumn or be- 

 ginning of winter, and so many as a hundred and 

 twenty Seals have been killed there on one day. In 

 Mr Bell's History of British Quadrupeds will be 

 found a good account of this species by Mr Ball, who 

 remarks that " it appears scarcely susceptible of 

 domestication, and the development of its skull 

 seems to indicate as much, for the size of the brain 

 of a specimen nearly eight feet long did not ex- 

 ceed that of one of Phoca vitulina of less than 

 four feet." 



