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the longest necks. In this particular they are surpassed by sea- 
serpents. 
None of the hitherto known living Pinnipeds has such an enor- 
mous tail as the sea-serpent, but the fossil Basiosaurus, an animal 
more or less allied to the earless seals, has an enormous tail. Of 
the singular appearance of a family of which some members have 
Fig. 82.— Callorhinus ursinus (LINNE) Gray. — From Breum’s “Thierleben’”’. 
immensely long tails, and others are almost wholly without, we 
have more instances in the animal kingdom. Of the Monkeys the 
family of the Szmiudae have no tails, whilst the other families have 
generally long tails. Amongst the tailed monkeys we find in one 
genus species with very long tails, as the AM/acacus cynamolgos (the 
Macaque Monkey), and others with very short tails, as the d/aca- 
cus maurus (Moor Macaque). This difference in the length of the 
tail is present im all orders of the Quadrupedia. 
Form. — The shape of Megophias megopiias is exactly that of 
Zalophus cahfornianus, with a longer neck, and with a tail as long 
as trunk, neck, and head together. The shape of the head too, 
in my opinion, more resembles that of Zalophus califormianus than 
that of any other Pinniped. The shape of the neck, the trunk, 
and the flappers is exactly that of the same portions of the d4urz- 
