SEA-LTONS, AND SEA-BEARS. 



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323 rf. Skull, nearly perfect : 10^ inches long. 

 Antarctic seas (Antarctic E.vjpedition). 46. 4. 25. 



Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



11. OMMATOPHOCA, Gray, Cat. Seals S,- Whales, p. 13; Siqipl p. 4. 

 Nasal bones united, very long, narrow, attenuated behind. 



1. Ommatophoca Rossir, Gray, Cat. Seals ^ Whales, p. 14. 



Animal, stuffed. 



324 a. Skeleton. Skull broken (fig. 9). (PI. XI.) 43.11.25.4. 



Ommatophoca Rossii, Gray, Voy. Ereh. <§• Terr. pi. vii. (animal), 

 pi. viii. figs. 1, 2, 4 (akuli) ; Cat. Mamm. B. M., Seals, p. 19, f. 6 ; 

 Cat. Seals lij- Whales, p. 13, f. 4 (skull). 

 Antarctic seas. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Fig. a. 



Ommatophoca Sossii. 



324 c. Skeleton and skuU. 



Antarctic seas. 

 3246. SkuU, nearly complete. 43. 11. 16. 1. 



Ommatophoca Rossii, Gray, Voy. Ereh. ^- Terr. pi. viii. figs. 3, 5. 



Antarctic seas. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



III. Nose transversely wrinkled: male ivith a dilatile appendaye. Skull: 

 nose-hole large ; cutting-teeth A, conical : grinders | or f , crown roundish, 

 with swollen roots and small simply plated crowns with a central ridge. 

 Sea-elephants. 



The skulls of the j'oung and old specimens are very much alike ; 

 the noses of the males are broadly dilated, of females narrower. 



