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and Seal islands, near Cape Desire, on the coast 

 of Patagonia ; and are found within the Magel- 

 lanic Straits, and on Falkland islands, but have 

 not been discovered in any other part of the 

 southern hemisphere, or in any other place nearer 

 than the sea between Kamtschatka and America. 

 They live in families distinct from the Ursine and 

 other Seals ; their manners, however, are nearly 

 the same : they are polygamous, each male being 

 accompanied by from two to thirty females. The 

 males utter a snorting sound, and occasionally 

 roar like bulls : the voice of the females resembles 

 that of calves, and the young bleat like lambs, 

 the food of the Leonine Seal consists of the smaller 

 kinds of penguins, fish, seals, &c. but during the 

 breeding season they are said to fast for three or 

 four months, during which time they swallow a 

 number of large stones, in order to keep their sto- 

 machs in a distended state. 



URIGNE SEAL. 



Phoca Lupina. P. (inauriculata?) capite canino, pedibus anterioribus 



pinniformibus. 



Earless Seal with dog-like head, and fore feet shaped like fins. 

 Urigne Seal. Pennant Quadr. p. 290. 



THIS is a smaller species than the former, be- 

 ing found from about three to eight feet in length. 

 The body is thick at the shoulders, and gradually 

 lessens to the hind legs. The head resembles 

 that of a dog, with close cut ears: the nose is 



