YELLOW SEAL. 



tremity of the hind feet, about two feet and a 

 half. Its colour is an uniform pale yellow, or 

 deep cream-colour, without any variegation. The 

 head is rather small, and the nose somewhat point- 

 ed : the ears are about an inch long, and are very- 

 narrow and pointed ; and are somewhat leaf-shap- 

 ed : the vibrissae or whiskers long and whitish : the 

 teeth are rather blunt than sharp, and the two 

 middle incisores or front teeth of the lower jaw 

 are slightly emarginated. The fore feet are pin- 

 niform, and without any appearance of toes or 

 claws, and in shape someAvhat resemble the fore 

 fins of a turtle : the hind feet are strongly webbed, 

 and have long and very distinct claws, of which 

 the three intermediate are much larger than the 

 exterior ones : the tail is about an inch in length. 

 This Seal is in the Leverian Museum, and is a na- 

 tive of the Magellanic Straits. It has never be- 

 fore been figured, except in the plate of the 

 Magellanic Vulture or Condor, in the first num- 

 ber of the Museum Leverianum; but the figure 

 there represented, being merely intended as an 

 accompaniment to the scenery of the plate, is, of 

 course, only calculated to convey a general re- 

 semblance of the animal. 



