186 SPECIMENS OF PINNIPEDIA. 



the post-canine teeth and their mode of implantation 

 in the jaws, together with the form of the mandible, 

 gave characters which showed that the fossil closely 

 resembled Phoca hisjpida and distinguished it from 

 both vitulina and gnenlaiidica. In the figure on 

 p. 185 the bone with broken coronoid is the fossil, 

 and the jaw below it is Pitoca Jtispida, 

 Montrose. Donor — Dr Jas. C. Howden, 



9. Vertebrae, and portions of Ribs, of a Seal regarded as 

 PJioca hispida Found in brick-clay near Errol. See 

 memoir by the Rev. Thos. Brown in Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Ed in., vol. xxiv. Donor — Rev. Thos. Brown. 



10. Skeleton, portions of, from a young Seal regarded as 

 Phoca hispida, found in 1869 near Grangemouth, 

 in a stratum of clay, whilst sinking the shaft of a 

 coal pit. Described by Turner in Journ. Anat. and 

 Phys., vol. iv., 1870. The figure below shows the 

 inner surface of the jaw ; the most anterior post- 

 canine is lost, and the separate tooth is from the 

 upper jaw. Donor — Dr Wm. Stirling. 



11. Humerus, Radius, Ulna, adult, found in brick-clay, Dunbar, 

 in 1878. The humerus, 4< 1 inches long, does not have 

 a supracondyloid foramen. Radius 4"15 inches, ulna 

 5"2 inches. Described by D'Arcy W. Thompson in 

 Journ. Anat. and Phys., vol. xiii , 1879. These 

 bones are not from Phoca liispida, nor indeed from 

 any species of the Phocinae. The supracondyloid fora- 

 men is absent, although present in both Phoca and 

 Halichcerus, but not in the Eared Seals. Figure on 

 page 187. Donor — Dr D'Arcy Thompson. 



