260 ORDER V. 



The general colour an olive-brown above, paler at 

 the side, and turning yellowish- white beneath ; the 

 back marked with a number of somewhat semi- 

 lunate dark-brown spots : on the forehead, which 

 was of the same colour, a broad streak passed across 

 the nose on the cheeks to the ears, leaving the orbits 

 buff. Supposed to be from the South Seas. 



Another specimen, formerly in Bullock's Museum, 

 in size nearly equal to the common seal, was there 

 denominated Otaria Australis, and was entirely dull 

 black, though the species figured under that name 

 is larger and rufous. 



A third among our drawings, only three feet long, 

 with a velvety black fur, and naked orange-coloured 

 extremities, might be the young of some large spe- 

 cies; not the elephant seal, for it has external ears, 

 and cannot be very young, since the bristly piles of 

 the whiskers are long and abundant. 



Otaria cinerea of Perron, appears to be the same 

 as the Porcine Seal of Pennant and Molina. 



But the most remarkable among the Otarias, in 

 our series of drawings, was obtained in the museum 

 of Philadelphia, and may be 0. pusilla of authors, 

 distinguished by an accidental addition in the teeth, 

 for they were incis. f , can. f -f , molars, not entirely 

 visible, showed f-f , all conical, with a small ante- 

 rior and posterior lobe. The size was about 4 feet 

 6 inches to the extremity of the hind feet ; the head 

 dog-like, with a full mufle, surrounded with white, 

 and the lips and vibrissaB the same ; throat and un- 

 der surface whitish ; all the upper surface brownish- 



