SEALS. 13 



middle incisors peculiar. Vertebrae : cranial, 4 ; cervical, 7 ; 

 dorsal, 14; lumbar, 6; sacral, 3; coccygeal, 13 = 47- 



" The nostrils opened much after the manner of the Cetacea, 

 in the form of elongated fissures, 1 inch from the extremity 

 of the snout ; the pelvic extremities veiy large and far back ; tail 

 extremely short. The skin was hairy. The stomach contained 

 numerous fish-bones, a few feathers (gulls'), and some consider- 

 able portions of a pale green, broad-leaved, marine Fucus : 

 thousands of a small, hard, round, white worm (parasitical) per- 

 vaded all parts of the intestines. The intestinal tube measured 

 71 feet 10 inches : caput caecum, 1 inch 9 lines : diameter of 

 small intestines, 1 inch; of large intestines, 1 inch 6 lines. 

 Liver weighed 1 4 Ibs. ; kidneys, 2 Ibs. each ; spleen, 1 Ib. ; heart, 

 6 Ibs. The arch of the aorta gave off an extremely short inno- 

 minata, which divided it into a right carotid and subclavian, and 

 left carotid ; the left subclavian came off separately : it resembles 

 Tiedemann's third variety, pi. 3 (copy published in Edinburgh;." 



Stenorhynchus (Stenorhynque), F. Cuv. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxxix. ; 

 Mem. Mus. xi. 190; Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 463 (1829); Nilsson, 

 Wiegmann Arch. vii. 307; Scand. Fauna; Gray, Zool. Ereb. 

 Sf Terror, Mamm. 



Phoca, sp. Home, Blainville, F. Cuv. Dent. Mamm. t. 



Inhab. Antarctic Ocean. 



1. STENORHYNCHUS LEPTONYX. SEA LEOPARD. 



Grey, paler beneath, with small black spots on the sides of 

 the neck and body, and with a few smaller white spots on the 

 sides ; upper part of the hinder limbs dark, pale-marbled. 



Phoca Leptonyx, Blainv. Journ. Phys. xci. 288, 1820; Desm. 



Mamm. 247, from Home's specimen ; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 208. 



t. 18.f.2; Gray, Griffith, A.K.V.178-, Blainv. Osteogr. Phoca, 



t. 1 & t. 4. f. , skull (Mus. Paris); F. Cuvier, Dent. Mamm. 



118. t. 38 A. 

 Seal from New Georgia, Home, Phil. Trans. 1822, 240. t. 29, 



skull. 

 Phoque quatrieme, Blainv. in Desm. Mamm. 243, note ; see Cuv. 



Oss. Foss. v. 207. 

 Stenorhynchus Leptonyx, F. Cuv. Diet. Sc. N. xxxix. 549. t. 44 ; 



F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 190. t. 13. f. 1; Dent. Mamm. 118. 



t. 38 A ; Nilsson, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 307 ; Scand. Fauna, t. ; 



Gray, Zool. Erebus fy Terror, Mamm. t. 3, animal, t. 4, skull ; 



Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 31 ; Blainv. Osteogr. Phoca, t. 5. f. 9, 



teeth and skull. 

 Phoca Homei, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 417. 



