24 SEALS. 



*** Lower jaw not observed. 



4. CALLOCEPHALUS CASPICUS. CASPIAN SEAL. 



Back and sides grey-brown, decorated with irregular, thickish, 

 yellowish rings ; the sides of the mouth gradually of a pale yel- 

 lowish ; hairs of the beard thick, pale. Length 4 feet. 



Phoca Caspica, Nilsson, Vetensk. AJcad. Hand. 1837; Scand. 



Fauna; Wiegmann, Arch. vii. 313. 

 Phoca canina, var. Caspica, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 

 Phoca vitulina /3. Caspia, Gmelin, S. N. ; Fischer, Syn. 675 ; 



Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 173. 

 Callocephalus Caspicus, Gray, Zool. E, fy T. 3. 

 Inhab. Caspian Sea. 



5. CALLOCEPHALUS DIMIDIATUS. NORWAY SEAL. 

 Whiskers waved, dark grey above, lips and beneath pure white. 



Phoca dimidiata, Schlegel, Mus. Leyden. 

 Inhab. Norway. Mus. Leyden. 



May be only a particular state of one of the preceding species. 



6. CALLOCEPHALUS LARGHA. LARGHA SEAL. 



Muffle bald, narrow, with a central groove ; whiskers com- 

 pressed, waved; shining ashy white, with numerous scattered, 

 small, oval black spots, smaller and closer on the back; feet 

 brownish ash ; claws long, black ; no under-fur. 



Young yellow ; back dark grey, from the skin being visible 

 through the pale hair; hair short, flattened; web baldish. 



Yar. Spots larger, more equally scattered (Japan). Skull and 

 teeth like P. oceanica, Temm. 



Phoca Largha, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 113. 

 Phoca nummularis, Temm. Fauna Japon. c. 3. t. 

 Chien de Mer de Detroit de Behring, Choris, Voy. Pictoresque, 



t. 8. 

 Phoca Chorisii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 417; Fischer, 



Syn. 24. 



Phoque tigre, Krachenninikow, Hist. Kamtsch. 

 Phoca tigrina, Lesson, Manuel, 550. 

 ? Phoque de Steller, Krachenn. Descrip. Kamtsch. 107. 

 Inhab. North Pacific. Japan, Mus. Leyden. East Shore, Kamt- 



schatka, Pallas. 



