14. OTARIA. Muzzle broad, high in front ; forehead rather 

 convex ; occiput high ; cutting teeth f , upper and outer one 

 very large, like canines ; grinders of adult with very large 

 roots, and small compressed lobed crown; palate-bone 

 rather wider behind than in front, long, extending nearly to 

 the articulation of the jaws behind ; lower jaw broad, dilated 

 in front and behind at the angle ; the upper jaw elongate, 

 and dilate with age. 



SECT. I. Grinders ^, two-rooted j ears none j toes simple, of 

 the fore-feet short, of the hind-feet unequal, the outer on 

 each side longest, the middle shortest, the palms and soles 

 hairy. 



The skull has no post-orbital process nor alisphenoid canal. 

 The mastoid process is swollen, and seems to form part of the 

 auditory bulla. Turner. 



Monachus albiventer. Fore and hind feet. 



Phoca, Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 175, 1827. 



Phoca, Sect. I., F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. ; Nilsson, Wiegm. 



Arch. vii. 306; Scand. Fauna, n. xx. 



Phocidae seu Brachidontia, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 36, 1828. 

 Phoques dents racines multiples, F. Cuvier, Dent. Mamm. 116. 



t. 08, 1825. 

 Phocina, part., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, 88. 



