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versly: the lower in an opposite direction: on 

 each side of the canine teeth a lesser or secondary 

 one: the grinders are conoid, with a small pro- 

 cess on each side, near the base : the fore feet 

 have no claws, but the bones of the toes, which 

 are five in number, may be all felt beneath the 

 skin or web, which extends a good way beyond 

 their ends: the toes of the hind feet are four, 

 with long and strait claws; the skin stretching 

 far beyond them. 



TORTOISE-HEADED SEAL. 



Phoca Testudinea. P. capite testudineo, collo gratiti. 

 Seal with tortoise-shaped head, and slender neck. 

 Tortoise-headed Seal. Pennant Quadr. p. 276. 



WITH head shaped like that of a Tortoise : neck 

 slender: feet resembling those of the common 

 Seal. This is described by Dr. Parsons, in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, who informs us that 

 it is found on several of the European coasts. 



RIBBON SEAL. 



Phoca Fasciata. P. nigricans, fascia dorsali subquadrata flava. 

 Blackish Seal, with a squarish dorsal yellow band. 

 Ribbon Seal. Pennant Quadr. p. 276. 



THIS species, which is at present only known 

 from a part of its skin described by the celebrated 

 Dr. Pallas, is a native of the seas about the Kurile 



