SEALS. 27 



4th long, the 1st and 5th shorter, nearly equal; palate with a 

 semicircular edge behind. 



Skull. Forehead arched ; lower jaw with the front edge of the 

 lower side rather dilated and inflexed ; grinders small, far apart, 

 often much worn. 



Females. Teats 4. 



Fig. 9. 



Phoca barbata. Skull, grinder and palate. 



Phoca, sp., Linn. &c. 



Phoca, Gray, ZooL E. fy T. 



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



1. PHOCA BARBATA. LEPORINE SEAL. 



Male. Black, belly yellowish, black dotted. Female, beneath 

 grey. 

 Phoca barbata, Fab. Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. i. 139-159. t. 13. f. 3, 



skull ; Faun. Grcenl. 15 ; Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod. viii. ; Nilsson, 



Scand. Faun. i. 374; Wiegm. Arch. vii. 317; Thienem. Nat. 



BemerJc. i. 1. 1, 2, 3, t. 4, skull ; Bull. Sci. Nat. v. 261 ; F. Cuv, 



Mem. Mus. xi. 184. t. 12. f. 4, k,l,m-, Gray, Cat. Osteol. 



Spec. B. M. 32 ; Zool. Erebus fy Terror ; Griffith, A.K.v.\7$; 



Fischer, Syn. 240 ; Blainv. Osteog. Phoca, t. 9, dentition ; 



? Temm. Fauna Japon. 

 Callocephalus barbatus, F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 547 ; 



Ruppell, Verz. 167. 



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