36 SEALS, 



12. CYSTOPHORA, 



Nose of the male with a large compressed hood, extending to 

 the back of the head ; muzzle very broad, hairy ; nostrils large ; 

 muzzle of the skull broad, narrowed on each side in front ; fore- 

 head flat ; palatine bone broad, square ; hair elongate, cylin- 

 drical ; whiskers flat, waved ; claws 5-5, distinct. 



Cystophora, Gray, Zool. Erebus fy Terror, 4. 



Cystophora, sp., Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837; Scand. Fauna ; 



Wiegm. Arch. vii. 326. 



Mirounga, part., Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 463. 

 Stemmatopus (Stemmatope), F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. 196. 1. 13, 



1827; Diet. S<n. Nat. lix. 464; Fischer, Syn. 230. 



The young is like the young of Pagophilus gr&nlandicus in 

 external appearance, but it is easily known from that species by 

 the hairiness of the muffle between the nostrils, and by the teeth 



Fig. 13. 



Cystophora cristata. Skull. 



not being lobed, but only plaited on the surface. See also Nilsson, 

 Wiegm. Arch. vii. 320. 



1. CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA. HOODED SEAL. 



Outer cutting teeth and the canines narrow, compressed. 

 Phoca cristata, Erxl. Syst. 590; F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 196. 



t. 13. f. 3; Fab. Nat. Selsk. Skri. i. 120. t. 12. f. 2; Dekay, 



