Crass I. SL EA ATS 
heard of this fpecies, but did not meet with it. Mr. 
Thompfon, our matter, fhot one; but it funk, and 
we loft it. 
Le Veau marin, ou loup de Kafligiak. Crantz’s hif. Greenl, 
Mer. Below 25. Pl. 26. pee ea 
Seal, Seoile, or Sea-calf. Le Phoque, a Buffon, xii. 333. 
Phoca, feu vitulus mari- Horr. Icel. 88. 
nus. Raii fyn. quad. 189.  ‘Pontop.. Norw. ii. 125. 
Sea-calf. PAzl. Lranf. No. Briffon quad. 162. 
469. Gab. 1. “Abridg. Phoca vitulina. Lin. fy. 56. 
xlvil. | | Phoca. Klein quad. 93. 
Smith's Kerry, 84, 364. Phoca dentibus caninis teétis, 
Borlafe’s Cornw. 284. Faun. Suec. 4. 
Worm. mufe. 289. Br. Zool. 34. Syn. quad. No. 
265. 
Brit. Moelrhon Germ. .Meer wolff, Meer hund 
Fren. Le YVeau marin e« Dut. Zee hond 
Stal. Vechio marino Swed. Sial 
Span. Lobo marino Dae. Sel hund 
HE common length of thofe taken on the 
Britifh coafts, is from five to fix feet. 
The fubject that we took our defcription from, 
was a youne one; fo allowance muft be made for 
the proportions of the meafurements of thofe that 
have attained their full fize. Its length, from the 
end of the nofe to the end of the hind feet, was two 
feet nine inches; to the end of the tail, two feet 
three inches: the head was feven inches long: the 
tail two and a half: the fore legs were deeply im- 
merfed in the fkin of the body ; what appeared out, 
_was only eight inches long: the breadth of the fore 
= Vou. t, L feet, 
37 Common. 
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