2 PHOCID^. 



Sect. I. Cutting-teeth f , curved, conical, and small. The palate produced 

 nearly to the hinder molars. 



Tribe I. PHOCINA. 

 Skull tapering in front. Fose-tole moderate. Molars, except 

 the first, with two roots. 



Phocina, Gray, Cat. Seals Sr Whales, p. 20. 

 Inhab. North Atlantic and Arctic Seas. 



1. CALLOCEPHALUS. 



Oallocephaluis, Gray, Cat. Seals 8f Whales, p. 20. 



2. PAGOMYS. 



Pagomys, Gray, Cat. Seals If Whales, p. 22. 



3. PAGOPHILUS. 



Pagophilus, Gi-ay, Cat. Seals Sr Whales, p. 25. 



1. Pagophilus ? equestris. 



Brown, with a ring round the head, a ring round the fore limbs, 

 and a broad band round the middle, white. The female whitish 

 brown, with an obscure band across the hinder part of the back. 



Phoca equestris, Pallas, Zoog. Ross.-Asiat. i. p. 340; Schrenek, 



Amur-Land, p. 182, tab. 9. flgs. 1-3. 

 Phoca fasciata, Shaw,' Zool. i. p. 276 (from the Kibbon-Seal, Pennant's 



Quad. 276). 

 Phoca annellata, Madde, Reisen im SUden von Ost-Sibirien, 1862, i. 



p. 296, t. 1-3. 

 Inhab. North Pacific. 



2. Pagophilus ? ochotensis. 



Phoca ochotensis, Pallas, Zoog. Poss.-Asiat. i. p. 117; Schrenek, 

 Amur-Land, p. 181. 



Inhab. North Pacific. 



4. HALICYON. 

 Halicyon, Gray, Cat. Seals 8f Whales, p. 27. 



1. Halicyon Eichardi. 



Halicyon Richardi, Cat. S. l^ Whales, p. 30. 

 Inhab. North Pacific ; Columbia Eiver. 



2. Halicyon Pealei. 



Halichoerus antarcticus, T. Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 Mr. GDI says that this is a typical species of Ph^ca, but appears 

 to be identical with those that occur along the Californian and Ore- 

 gonian coast, so that there must be some error as to the assigned 

 habitat in the Antarctic seas — and proposes the name Phoca Pealii 

 (Prcc. Essex Instit. vol. v. p. 4). 



