SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Icon. Lepechin, L c. t. 8, 9. F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. ix. 

 Inhabits the North Sea and the White Sea. 

 Obs. According to Desmarest, the cutting teeth of this 

 pecies are \. 



457. 3. P. Discolor (Two-coloured Seal.) Fur blackish, 

 narked with torquious yellowish gray lines. 



Calocephale discolor, F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 



Icon. 



Inhabits the North Seas. 



m 



458. 4. P. Lagura (White-Tailed Seal.) Fur gray, 

 ilearer on the sides and belly ; back and flanks sometimes 

 variegated with small irregular black spots ; whiskers 

 )lack ; tail long, thin, white; claws of the fore-feet long, 

 itrong, and compressed. 



Phoca lagura, Cuv. Ossemens Fossiles, v. 206. 



Icon. 



Inhab. (Mus. Paris.) 



459. 5. P. Grcenlandica (Greenland Seal.) Fur of the 

 idult males whitish, with the forehead and muzzle, and a 

 arge subcontiguous lunated blotch on the sides, crossing 

 it the shoulders ; claws strong, black ; females and young 

 :overed with unequal distant angular spots. 



Phoca Grcenlandica, Muller, Pro. 8. P. Semilunaris, 

 Bodd. P. oceanica, Lepechin, Act. Petrop. 



Svartside, Egede, 46. Attarsoak, Crantz. 163 — 169. Harp 

 3eal, Shaw's Zool. 



Icon. Shaw's Zool. t.ll. Egede,L c. t. Lepechin^ Act. Pc- 

 rop. V. t. 78. 



Inhabits the North Sea. 



Lepechin describes P. oceanica as having only -} cutf ing- 

 eeth ; but we have followed M. F. Cuvier in placing it with 

 P. Grcenlandica. 



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