14 SEALS. 



The Small-nailed Seal, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. 180. t. 11 (nails 



too large). 

 Stenorhynchus aux Petits Ongles, Hombr. fy Jacq. Voy. a Pole 



Sud, t. 9. 



Sea Leopard of the Whalers. 

 Sea Bear of New Zealand, Knox in Letter. 

 Phoca ursina, or Sea Bear, Pollack, N. Zealand. 

 Inhab. Antarctic Ocean, on the packed ice. 



a. Skin. Adult. Stuffed. Antarctic Ocean. Presented by 

 the Lords of the Admiralty from the Antarctic Expedition. 



b. Skin. Adult. Unstuifed. 



c. Skull. 



d. Skull. Antarctic Seas. Antarctic Expedition. Presented 

 by the Admiralty. 



Skull figured Zool. Erebus fy Terror, t. . f. 



e. Skull. Presented by the Admiralty. 



/. Skeleton. Port Nicholson, New Zealand. Presented by 

 Dr. Frederick Knox. 



g. Skull. Antarctic Seas. Presented by the Admiralty. 



h. Skull and bones of the body. Antarctic Seas. Presented 

 by the Admiralty. 



i. Skull. Antarctic Seas. 



Mr. Owen (Ann. N. H. 1843, 331) appears to think that this 

 animal is one-coloured, for he says the Sea Leopard is distin- 

 guished from it " by the spotted hide." 



3. LEPTONYX. 



Skull broad, depressed behind ; muzzle short, broad ; grinders 

 subcompressed, with a small, subcentral, conical tubercle, and a 

 very small posterior one ; the lower jaw narrow behind, without 

 any hinder angle ; fore-feet clawed. 



Head flattened ; muzzle broad, rather short, rounded ; muffle 

 hairy between and to the edge of the nostrils ; nostrils ovate ; 

 whiskers compressed, slightly waved ; ears, no external conch. 



Skull slightly depressed, expanded behind; muzzle rather 

 short, broad, high above ; orbits rather large : the petrose por- 

 tion of the temporal bone convex, hemispherical. 



Cutting teeth J, conical, rather recurved, those of the upper 

 jaw largest; the middle in each jaw smaller; the outer upper 

 much larger. Canines l ^, large, conical, curved, rather com- 

 pressed, upper largest. Grinders |, moderate, rather far apart, 

 parallel to the edge of the jaw, compressed, with subcentral, 

 conical, prominent tubercle; the second, third and fourth, in 

 the more perfect specimens, with a small conical tubercle on the 



