%,$ BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 



and 56. a They swim very swiftly, at the rate of 

 seven miles an hour, and are very fierce and 

 strong. They are said to be very tenacious of 

 life, and to live a fortnight after receiving such 

 wounds as would immediately destroy almost any 

 other animal. 



BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 



Phoca Leonina. P. capite antice cristate, corf ore fusco. Lin. Sjst, 

 Nat. GmeL p. 63. 



Brown Seal, with the snout of the male furnished with a pro- 

 jecting crest or inflated membrane. 



Sea-Lion. Ansorfs <voy. p. 122. 



Bottle-nosed Seal. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 286. 



THIS species (in the male) is distinguished by 

 its projecting snout, which hangs several inches 

 over the lower jaw; the upper part consisting of a 

 loose wrinkled skin, which the animal, when an- 

 gry, has a power of inflating, so as to give the 

 nose an arched or hooked appearance. It is a 

 very large species, the male measuring twenty, 

 and the female about eighteen feet in length. 

 The feet are short: the hinder ones webbed in 

 such a manner as to resemble a kind of fins: the 

 eyes are large: the vibrissse or whiskers are also 

 large and long : the general colour of the animal 

 is a deep cream or dun, or rather a rust-colour: 

 in the female the nose is blunt and tuberous at 

 the top: the nostrils wide: the mouth rather 

 small: in the upper jaw are four cutting-teeth. 



