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7. PAGOPHILUS. 



Palate truncated behind; fingers gradually shorter; muzzle 

 rather produced ; hair dry, flat, close-pressed, without any under- 

 fur ; web between the hind-toes baldish ; lower jaw dilated and 

 inflexed beneath in front, so as to close in the front part of the 

 gullet ; grinders rather distant. 



Inhab. Northern Ocean. 



Callocephalus , F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. 1827. 

 Pagophilus (Subgen. of Callocephalus), Gray, Zool. Erebus fy 

 Terror, 3. 



Fig. 8. 



Pagophilus Grosnlandicus. Skull. 



1. PAGOPHILUS GRCENLANDICUS. HARP SEAL. 



Grey or whitish, with large and small black spots ; hairs of the 

 beard waved on the edges ; cutting teeth diminish in size ; the 

 grinders separated, straight ; edge of the mouth oblique. Length 

 4 to 5 feet. 



Until six or seven weeks old white, called White Coats at 

 Newfoundland ; at one year old they have small spots ; at two 

 years old they have large spots, and the males are called Bed 

 Lampiers ; at three years old the males and females have the 

 harp-shape band. Jukes, I. c. 



Phoca Grcenlandica, Mutter, Zool. Dan. Prod. 8; Fab. Fauna 

 Gran. 11 ; Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. i. 87-157, ii. t. 12. f. 1, skull; 

 Thienemann, Nat. Bemerk. t. 14-21 ; Butt. Sci. Nat. v. 261. 

 t. 15 & 18, t. 19, skull; F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 186, 1. 12. f. 2 ; 

 Nilsson, Scand. Fauna, i. 370. t. 37, young ; Wiegm. Arch. 

 vii. 314 ; Gray, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. 91 $ . t. 92; v. 177 ; Ball, 

 Sketches of British Seals, 1. 1 1 . f. 33, 35, skull (11} from River 



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