Class I. PIED SEAL. 177 



Pied Seal, Br. Zool. 4th ed. i. Phoca bicolor. P. nigra in- 38. Pied. 



139. Hist. quad. ii. No. 47 1. auriculata, albo varia, naso 



p. 273. Tab. 98. elongato, pedibus posteri- 



La Phoque a ventre blanc. De oribus lunatis. Shaw, 



Buffon, supp. vi. 310. Tab. Gen. Zool. i. p. 254. 



xliv. 



J- HE nose of this species is taper and elon- Descrip- 



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gated ; the fore-feet furnished with five toes in- 

 closed in a membrane, but very distinct ; the 

 claws long and straight ; the hind feet very 

 broad, with five distinct toes, the claws just 

 extending to the margin of the membrane, 

 which expands into the form of a crescent. 

 This I saw at Chester; it was taken near 

 that city in May \766. On the first capture, 

 its skin was naked like that of a porpesse, and 

 only the head and a small spot beneath each 

 leg was hairy ; before it died the hair began 

 to grow on other parts. The fore part of the 

 head was black, the hind part of the head and 

 the throat white ; beneath each fore leg a spot 

 of the same color ; hind feet of a dirty white ; 

 the rest of the animal of an intense black. I 

 believe they vary in the disposition of the 

 colors ; the animal given by M. de Buffon had 

 only the belly white. These species, according 

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