10. PHOCA. 



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position which he has won by his hydrographic and scientific quali- 

 fications. 



10. PHOCA. 



Muzzle broad, short ; forehead convex ; whiskers smooth, taper- 

 ing ; ear-hole large ; fingers unequal, the third longest, second and 

 fourth long, the first and fifth shorter, nearly equal ; palate with a 

 semicircular edge behiad. Forehead arched; grinders smaU, far 

 apart, often much worn ; teeth small. The branches of the lower 

 jaw arched on the sides and wide apart ; lower edge produced, form- 

 ing a blimt rugulose tubercle on the inner side behind the symphysis ; 

 the angle of the lower jaw with a rounded lobe on the inner side 

 above the basal tubercle. (Fig. 10.) 



Female. Teats 4. 



Inhab. Northern Seas. 



Phoca, sp., Linn. &c. 



Phoca, Gray, Zool. E.SfT.; Cat. Phoadce B. M. 26. 



Oallocephalus, sp., F. Ouvier, Mim. Mm. xi. 1827. 



Fig. 10. 



Phoca barbata. Skull, grinder, and palate. 



1. Phoca barbata. Leporine Seal. 



Male. Black ; belly yellowish, black-dotted. Female. Beneath grey. 



Phoca barbata, O. Fabr. Skrivt. Nat. Sehk. i. 139-159. 1. 13. f. 3 (skull) ; 

 Faun. Gfroenl. 15; MiiU. Zool. Dan. Prodr. viii. ; Nilsson, Skand. 

 Faun. i. 374; Wiegm. Arch. vii. 317; Thienem. Nat. JBemerh. i. 

 t. 1, 2, 3, t. 4 (skull); BM. Sei. Nat. y. 261; F. Cuv. Mint. Mm. 

 xi. 184. 1. 12. f. 4, h,l,m; Gray, Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 32 ; Zool. 

 Frebua 8f Terror ; QrifftKs A.K.-V. 178 ; Fischer, Syn. 240 ; Blainv. 

 Ostiog. Phoca, t. 9 (dentition) ; ? Temm. Fauna Japan. 



