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red ; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a 

 kind of mane ; lips and nose reddish ; whiskers very long, strong, 

 white, smooth, tapering to a fine point. Skull short, forehead very 

 convex and rounded. — P. Z.S. 1859, 102. 



Fig. 16. 



CallorHnus ursinus. Skull. 



Palate rather concave in front, narrowed and flattened behind, 

 with a deep narrow hinder aperture, which has a regular ovate front 

 edge ; outer upper cutting-teeth moderate ; orbit very large ; zygoma 

 very strong ; grinders small. — P. Z. 8. 1859, 117. 



Ursus marinus, Steller, Nm. Comm. Petrcrp. ii. 331. 1. 15 ; — hence 

 Phoca uisina, Schreh. Sdugeth. iii. 289. t. 82 ; Omel. S. iV; i. 62 ; Sliaw, 



Zool. i. 266. t. 72: Fischer, &/n. 231: F. Cm. M4m. Mm. xi. 205. 



1. 16. f. 1 (skuU ?). 

 Otaria ursina, Desm. in P&ron 8r Zemeur, Voy.'ii. 41 ; Nouv. Diet. S. N. 



XXV. 695 ; Mamm. 249 ; Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 182 ; Wagner, Butt. 



Akad. Minchen, 1849, 168; Wieffm. Arch. Nat. 1849, 39; Schrenck, 



Amur-Lande, 189. 

 Otaria ursina, var., Mtis. Leyden. 



Otaria Fabricii, Lesson, Diet. Class. S. N. xiii. 419, from O. Fahr. 

 Otaria Kraschennenikovii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 420. 

 Chat marin, Kraseliermenikow, Hist. Kamtsch. i. 306. 

 Arctocephalus ursinus, ii*. Cuv. Diet. Set. Nat. xxxix. 564; Gray, in 



Brookes' s Cat. Mas. 37 ; Zool. Ereb. Sf Terror, 3 ; Cat. Phoeidce B.M. 



41 ; P. Z. S. 1869, 103, 107. t. 68 (skuU) ; Nilsson, Wieffm. Arch. 

 Ursine Seal, Penn. Hist. Quad. ii. 6^6, 631. 

 Ours marin, Buffon, Supp. vi. t. 47 ; Cuv. Bigne Anim. i. 167. 

 Sea Bears, Forster, Cook's Second Voy. ii. 203. 

 Young. Phoca nigra, Pallas, Zool. Bosso-Asiat. 107 ? 

 CallorHnus u^iaus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, 357. 



Inhab. Northern Pacific Ocean, Kamtschatka. Behring's Straits. 

 Sea of Ochotsk, Schrenck. 



a. Skin of adult male. 



6. Skull : adult male. Behring's Straits. — Described in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1859, 103. t. 68. 

 Skins collected to sell to the Chinese. — Pallas. 



