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THE MITRED OR HOODED SEAL. 



Phoca Mitrata CAMPER. 



PLATE XV. 

 Phoca Mitrata, Camp. De Blainville. The Capuchin Seal, Cuv. 



THE designation of Mitred Seal appears to have 

 been first applied by Camper, and a cranium with 

 this label was found in his museum, in 1811, by 

 Baron Cuvier. This specimen was supposed to 

 nave been procured in the Northern Ocean. Soon 

 after making this observation, Cuvier received from 

 Mr Milbert of New York a young animal of this 

 genus, from which a skeleton was prepared, and 

 which was found perfectly to correspond with 

 Camper's specimen. The locality of its capture was 

 not indicated. It has probably been from these ma- 

 terials that the plate in the PI. de Diet, des Scien. 

 Nat., of which ours is a copy, has been prepared, 

 though this is not expressly stated. The learned 

 author of the work here referred to has certainly 

 been unfortunate in making this animal identical 

 with the Crested Seal. 



This specimen was only three and a half feet 



