QUADRUPEDS. 



ORDER 



F E R 



PHOCA. SEAL. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores superiores 



sex, acuti, parallel!: exte- 



riores majores. 

 Inferiores, quatuor, parallel!, 



distinct!, aequales, obtusius- 



culi. 

 Laniarii solitarii, robusti, 



acuti; superiores ab inciso- 



ribus, inferiores a molari- 



bus remoti. 



Molares quinque, v. sex, an- 

 gusti, tricuspidati. 



Pedes postici coaliti. 



Fore-teeth in the upper jaw 

 six; pointed, parallel: the 

 exterior larger. 



In the lower jaw four; blunt- 

 ish, parallel, distinct, equal. 



Canine-teeth one on each side 

 in both jaws, large, point- 

 ed: the upper ones distinct 

 from the cutting-teeth; the 

 lower from the grinders. 



Grinders five on each side 

 above, six below: obtusely 

 tricuspidated. 



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JL HIS genus, like the preceding, is marine. It 

 is, however, so constituted as to require occasion- 

 ally some intervals of repose, and even a consider- 

 v. i. P. ii. 17 



