128 MAMMALIA. FER^. Seal. 



Inhabits the Kurile iflands.— The £kin is covered with very fhort, fine, gloffy and briftly hair, of 

 an uniformly blackifh colour ; and is marked along the fides, and acrofs the neck and crupper, with 

 regular narrow ftripes of a yellow colour, refeinbling a ribbon or harnefs laid on by art ; the {tripe on 

 each fide is a fmall fedtion of a large circle, the points (landing downwards ; that crofs the {houlders 

 is two portions of circles pointing forwards and meeting on the middle of the back ; that acrofs the 

 rump" is in a regularly waved form, and has two obliquely diverging procefTes, apparently intended 

 to run down the hind legs. The fize is unknown, as the defcription was taken from a fquared ikin 

 received by Dr Pallas from the Kurile iflands. 



191 16, Woolly Seal. — Phoca laniger. 



Has four cutting teeth in each jaw ; a thick upper lip, with long thick whifkers ; and 

 foft uneven fur. 



Phoca leporina. Lepechin, a<ft. Petrop. part i. 264. tab. viii. ix. — Leporine Seal. Penn. hift. of 

 quad. n. 381. Ar£t. zool. n. 75. 



Inhabits the White Sea, the coaft of Iceland, and the Frozen Ocean from Spitfbergen to Tfchut- 

 koinofs, or the north-eaft extremity of Afia. — The head is long, with a thick upper lip, having long 

 whifkers, fo that the animal feems bearded ; the fur is foft, upright, interwoven, and like that of a 

 hare. This fpecies has nails both on the fore and hind feet ; is fix feet and a half long, and five feet 

 two inches round. 



192 . 17. Speckled Seal. — Phoco punctata. 



Is elegantly fpeckled all over the body, head, and limbs. Penn. hift.. of quad. p. 523. 

 Inhabits the feas about Kamtfchatka and the Kurile iflands. 



193 18. Spotted Seal. — Phoca maculata. 

 The body is fpotted with brown. Penn. hift. of quad. p. 523. 



Inhabits the coafts about the Kurile iflands. — This fpecies is very fcarce. 



IQ4. 19. Black Seal. — Phoca nigra. 



Has a peculiar conformation of the hind legs. Penn. hift of quad. p. 523. 



Inhabits the coaft about the Kurile iflands. — This and the two laft fpecies are mentioned by Mr 

 Pennant as being obfcurely defcribed in the manufcripts of Steller. What the peculiarity in the con- 

 formation of the hind legs, in the Black Seal, confifts of, is not faid. 



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