28 SEALS. 



Phoca leporina, Lepech. Act. Petrop. i.264. t. 8,9; Fab. SJcriv. 



Natur. Selsk. i. 164 ; Fischer, Syn. 237 ; Gray, G. A. K. v. 178. 

 Phoca Lepechinii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 415. 

 Callocephalus Leporinus, F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 545. 

 ? Phoca maxima, Steller, Nov. Comm. Petrop. ii. 290. 

 Phoca albigena, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 107. 

 Leporine Seal, Penn. Quad. 1/7. 

 ?Sea Calf, Parsons, Phil. Trans, n. 469. 383. t. l.f. 1; cop. 



Buffon, H. N. Supp. vi. t. 14. 



Phoca Parsonii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 414. 

 ? Long-bodied Seal, Parsons, Phil. Trans, xlvii. 121, cop. 

 ? Grand Phoque, Buffon, H. N. xiii. 333. 

 ? Great Seal, Penn. Syn. 341. 

 Inhab. North Sea and Japan, according to Temm. 

 Skin sold as an article of commerce in Japan. Temm. 



a. Skeleton. Length 8 feet. North Sea. Mr. Brandt's Col- 

 lection. 



b. Skin. Adult. North Sea. Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



The Lachtak, Steller, Nov. Comm. Petrop. ii. 290=Phoca 

 Lachtak, Desm. N. Diet. H. N. xxv. 588=Phoca nautica, Pallas, 

 Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 108 of JBehring's Straits, have been referred 

 to Phoca barbata, but Pallas describes the fingers as subequal 

 and webbed to the end, which scarcely agrees with that animal. 



The body is ventricose ; the hair very short (5 lines), rigid, 

 silver-grey ; back brown lettered ; tail very short. 



The Maraku=Phoca ochotensis, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 

 1 1 7 with soft fur and pure white when young, from the North 

 Pacific, also requires further examination. 



2. PHOCA TROPICALIS. JAMAICA SEAL. 



Grey-brown ; hair very short, strap-shaped, closely adpressed, 

 black with a slight grey tip ; whiskers short, thick, cylindrical, 

 regularly tapering, without any appearance of wave or twist ; 

 fingers gradually shorter. 



Inhab. Jamaica. 



a. Skin imperfect, without skull. 



Skin referred to in description of Cystophora antillarum, Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 93. 



SECT. II. Grinders ~ or || with single root (except the two 

 hinder grinders o/Halichcerus). 



A. Ears, conch none. Toes simple, of fore-feet exserted, of 

 hind-feet large j the inner and outer ones large, long, the 

 three middle ones smaller : palm and soles hairy (some- 



