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Ommatophoca Rossii. Skull and hinder grinders. 



Fore-feet moderate, elongate, triangular, hairy above and be- 

 low ; toes 5*5, tapering, subequal, separated by a thick, narrow, 

 hairy web ; claws 2 or 3, very small, rudimentary, horny, acute ; 

 hind feet large, broad-triangular, hairy above and below ; the 

 outer toes on each side of the foot very large, broad, rounded at 

 the end, the middle ones small, narrow, tapering, with a -thick, 

 hairy web between them ; the central one smaller and shortest ; 

 all clawless ; tail short, conical. 



Fur very close-set, rather rigid. 



Inhab. Antarctic Ocean. 



Ommatophoca, Gray, Zool. Erebus fy Terror, Mamm. 

 Ommatophora, Turner, P. Zool. Soc. 1848, 88, misprint. 



1. OMMATOPHOCA ROSSII. Ross's LARGE-EYED SEAL. 



Greenish yellow, with close, oblique, yellow stripes on the side, 

 pale beneath. 



Ommatophoca Rossii, Gray, Zool. Erebus fy Terror, Mamm. t. /> 



animal, t. 8, skull and teeth; Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 31. 

 Inhab. Antarctic Ocean. 



a. Stuffed Skin. Antarctic Ocean. Presented by the Lords 

 of the Admiralty, from the Antarctic Expedition. 



b. Skull of a. Figured Zool. Erebus fy Terror, t. 8. f. 1,2 &4 

 The first and second grinders of the upper jaws are small, 



