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Stenorhincus, Fred. Cuv. 



Four Incisors above, and four below, the molars deeply notched into three 

 points. 



One species only is known, and that is from the Austral seas — Ph. lep- 

 tonix, Blain. Size of the barbata; greyish above; yellowish beneath; nails 

 small. 



Pexagus, Fred. Cuv. 



Four incisors also, above and below, but their grinders are obtuse cones, 

 with a slightly marked heel before and behind. There is one of them in 

 the Mediterranean, y 



Ph. monachus, Gm. (The Monk. ) From ten to twelve feet in lemgth, 

 of a blackish brown, with a white belly. It is particularly found among 

 the Grecian and Adriatic Islands, and is, most probably, the species best 

 known to the ancients. 



Stemmatopcs, Fred. Cuv. 



Four superior incisors, and two inferior; grinders compressed, slightly 

 ti'ilobate, supported by thick roots. Such is the 



Ph. cristata, Gm. (The Hooded Seal.) Seven or eight feet long; a 

 piece of loose skin on the head, which can be inflated at the pleasure of 

 the animal, and is drawn over the eyes when it is menaced, at which times 

 the nostrils also are inflated like bladders. From the Arctic ocean. 



Finally, the MACRonHiifus, Fr. Cuv., has the incisors of the preceding, 

 obtuse conical molars, and the muzzle resembling a short movable probos- 

 cis or snout. The largest seal known is of this subgenus; the 



Ph. leonina, L. (The Elephant Seal. ) From twenty to twenty-five feet 

 in length; brown, the muzzle of the male terminated by a wrinkled snout, 

 which becomes inflated when the animal is angry. It is common in the 

 southern latitudes of the Pacific Ocean, at the Terra del-Fuego, New Zeal- 

 and, Chili, &c. It constitutes an important object of the fisheries, on ac- 

 count of the oil in which it abounds. The 



Otabies, Peron, Seals with external ears. 

 Are worthy of being formed into a separate genus; because, indepen- 

 dently of the projecting external ears, the four superior middle incisors have 

 a double cutting edge, a circumstance hitherto unknown in any animal; the 

 external ones are simple and smaller, and the four inferior bifurcated. All 

 the molars are simply conical, and the toes of the forefeet almost immova- 

 ble; the membrane of the hind feet is lengthened out into a slip beyond 

 each toe; all the nails are flat and slender. 



Ph. jubata, Gm. ; Sea-Lion of Steller, Pernetty, &c. From fifteen to 



twenty feet, and more, in length; fawn coloured; the neck of the male 



covered with hairs that are more frizzled and thickly set than those on the 



rest of the body. It might be said to be found in all the Pacific Ocean, 



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