34 SEALS. 



The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of 

 bristles over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the 

 muzzle ; the upper lip longer than the lower ; the forehead con- 

 vex; the nostrils of the male "are wrinkled, and can be blown 

 up into a crest " (Forster), " with an elongate tubular proboscis " 

 (Peron)-, of the female simple, rounded, with a hairy muffle 

 between and around the edge of the nostrils. 



Cutting teeth f , far apart, conical, the two middle upper smaller, 

 the rest nearly equal ; the grinders with large, swollen, subcy- 

 lindrical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown ; 

 the hinder palatine bones short, transverse. 



The whiskers are very long and large, roundish, very slightly 

 compressed, rather waved. 



The fore-feet are rather small, oblong, obliquely truncated, the 

 wrist being nearly as long as the feet, with five elongated claws, 

 the first the smallest ; the hinder feet are moderate, the marginal 

 toes upon each side large, rounded, the three middle ones very 

 small, tapering ; all clawless. The tail conical. 



Fur short, hair short, flat ; broad and rounded at the tip in 

 the adult, rather more tapering in the young ; hair on the lips 

 rather longer, more slender and slightly curled. 



Inhab. the Southern Ocean. 



This genus has many characters in common with the Crested 

 Seal of the North American Continent, but differs especially in 

 the nose being provided with a proboscis, while in that genus it 

 has a hood-like swelling proceeding up the nose to the back of 

 the head. 



The male and female are so different in size that Lord Byron 

 mistook them for mother and young. Weddell, Voy. 84. 



Mirounga, part., Gray, Griffith, A.K. v. 179, 1827. 



Morunga, Gray, Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 33; Zoo/. Erebus $ 



Terror. 

 Macrorhinus (Macrorhine), F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. 200. t. 13, 



1827 ; Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 464, 1829 ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 230. 

 Cystophora, part., Nilsson, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 324. 

 Macrorhyna (misprint), Gray, Griffith, A.K.i. 180. 



Pallas (Zoo/. Ross. Asiat. i. 106) describes the skull of this 

 species as the skull of a Sea Lion, brought from the Cape of 

 Good Hope by Mr. Tulbagh. 



1. MORUNGA ELEPHANTINA. The SEA ELEPHANT. 



A Sea Lion and Lioness from Juan Fernandez, Anson, Voy. 

 round the World (1786), 1. 122. t. 19, copied; Pernetty, Voy. 

 Isles Malouines, ii. 47. t. 9*. f. 1, and altered t. 8*. f. 1 ; 

 hence 



