DR. J. MURIE ON THE ANATOMY OF THE SEA-LION. 579 
Fig. 14, Side view of skull, No. 5971 B, College-of-Surgeons Museum, said by donor, 
Captain Sullivan, to be that of a “ yearling.” 
Fig. 15. Same skull as seen from above. 
Fig. 16. Profile of a female skull, No. 3968, Osteol. Cat. Roy. Coll. Surg. Presented 
by Admiral Beaufort, C.B., F.R.S. 
Fig. 17. Upper view of ditto, exhibiting roughening or commencement of occipito- 
parietal crests. 
Fig. 18. Side view of skull of the mounted skeleton, No. 3971, Roy. Coll. of Surg. 
Collection. This with the above crania, figs. 12-14, are each from the 
Falkland Islands. Attested by Captain Sullivan of H.M. ship ‘ Philomel, 
and referred to in a letter, 21st May 1844, as male of the Hair Seal, Sea- 
lion, not full grown. Vide interleaved Catalogue and Minutes of Museum 
Committee, 30th August, 1844. 
Fig. 19. Upper surface of skull, figured 18: B marks a bullet lodged between the 
frontal and root of nasal bones. 
Fig. 20. Skull of a large and old Otaria jubata, from Dungeness Point, S.E. Patagonia, 
12th January, 1867. Presented to the Hunterian Museum by the Admiralty, 
1868, and in the College Catalogue numbered 3971 £. 
Fig. 21. The same skull, minus the mandible, in bird’s-eye view, or from above. 
The letters *, a, 5, c, in figs. 21, 20, 19, & 18, respectively indicate extraneous pro- 
cesses and crest, developed and most marked as age advances. 
Fig. 22. A longitudinal mesial section of an aged skull in the College-of-Surgeons 
Museum (No. 3971, Cat.), to show the interior brain-cavity, ethmoidal bones, 
&c.: ¢, great occipital crest; tent, bony tentorium, separating cerebral and 
cerebellar areas; ea, exoccipital foramen; pn, posterior nares. 7, frontal, 
Eth, ethmoid, and 7d, turbinal bones. 
Fig. 23. Under view of pelvis, last two lumbar, and the sacro-caudal vertebre of the 
Zoological Society’s male Otary. The parts are united by ligament and the 
intervertebral cartilages: about 3 nat. size. L, lumbar transverse processes ; 
c, intervertebral cartilage; J, dium; S, sacrum; P, pubis. 
The separate drawings between figs. 24 and 37 are two views of each of the bones 
composing the left carpus and tarsus of the male central skeleton, fig. 11. 
Fig. 24. Conjoined scapho-lunar bone, as seen from above (A) and below (#): d, upper 
or dorsal surface; 7, radial articular face; tz, anterior facet, which articulates 
with the trapezium and trapezoides; p, lower or palmar surface; m, facet for 
os magnum ; wc, unciform facet. 
Fig. 25. Cuneiform, (4) its postero-outward and (B) antero-inner faces: ag, upper 
hinder, and ag*, lower front angle of the bone; w/, ulnar fossa; m*, facet for 
fifth metacarpal; 7, radial facet; wc, unciform facet; d, narrow upper or 
dorsal surface. 
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