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TO THE 



CATALOGUE 



OP 



SEALS AND WHALES. 



Suborder PINNIPEDIA. 



Phocidse, Catalogue of Seals 8f Whales, p. 1. 



Pinnipedia, Illiger, Prodr. p. 138, 1811. 



Pinnipedes, GilPs Prodomus, Proceedings Essex Institute, vol. v. 1860. 



Family 1. PHOCID^. 



Muffle hairy on the edge, and between the nostrils. Ears 

 without any conch, merely a small aperture. Arms and legs very 

 short ; wrist very short. Toes subequal, arched, exserted. Hind 

 feet large, fan-shaped ; the inner and outer toes large and long, 

 the three middle ones shorter. The palms and soles hairy. Claws 

 , distinct, sharp. Skull : — postorbital process none or obsolete ; no 

 alisphenoid canal; the mastoid process swollen, seeming to form 

 part of the auditory bulla. The scapula expanded upwards and 

 backwards towards the posterior superior angle. Testicles enclosed 

 in the body of the animal, without any external scrotum. 



Phocidse, Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1869, vol. iv. pp. 268, 342, 344 ; 

 Gill, Proc. Essex Instit. 1866, p. 5 ; Allen, Bidl. Mus. Comp. Zool. 

 ii. 1870. y 



