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a form hitherto unremarked in any other animal. 

 The external ones are simple, and smaller, and the 

 four lower ones are forked. All the molars are 

 simply conic ; the toes of the anterior web-feet are 

 almost immoveable ; the membrane of the hinder 

 feet is prolonged in a small strap ; beyond each toe 

 all the nails are flat and slender. Their hair is less 

 smooth than that of the preceding tribe. 



The Maned Seal. (Phoca jubata, Gm.) Sea Lion of Steller, 

 Pernetty, fyc. Buff. Supp. VII. xlviii. 



From fifteen to twenty feet long and more. 

 Yellow ; the neck of the male covered with hairs 

 thicker and more frizzled than those on the rest 

 of the body. It may be found in the entire 

 Pacific Ocean, if, as seems probable, those of 

 the Straits of Magellan do not differ from those 

 of the Aleutian Isles. 



The Sea Bear. (Phoca Ursina, Gm.) Buff. Supp. VII. xlvii. 



Eight feet long, without a mane, varying from 

 brown to whitish. Of the North Pacific Ocean- 

 Some other seals are found in this sea, not 

 differing much from the sea-bear except in size 

 and colour. Such is the small Black Seal of 

 Buffon. f Phoca pusillaj Buff. XIII. liii. The 

 Yellow Seal of Shaw, fyc. 



The Mouses, (Trichecus.) 

 Resemble the seals in the limbs and general form of 



