MAMMALIA. FER^. 4, 5, 6. 9 



Common Seal, Sea Calf* Br. Zool. tab. 12. Show Zoo!, 1. 



tab. 70. 



Body 5 or 6 feet long,, tapering from the shoulders, various- shades 

 of brown, often spotted, clothed when young with thick-set hair ; 

 head short, large and round, furnished with whiskers each side the 

 mouth and over the eyes, the hairs of which have alternate con- 

 fractions and dilatations: eyes large, black, furnished with a nic- 

 titant membrane : external ears none, in the place of which are two 

 small orifice* : tongue cloven: legs short^webbed, 5-toed, with strong 

 slender claw.'s slightly incurved at their tips ; the hinder-ones point- 

 ing backwards and placed, close togteher : tail shorter than the 

 hind legs. 



7. Ph. barhata. Blackish, without ears : head smooth. 



Great Seal. Sharu Zool. f.74. Pliil. Trans, n. 469. t. 1. 



Greatly resembte&the last, but grows to the length of 12 feet,, and 

 is of an uniformly blackish colour. 



4. CAN IS. Dog. 



$, C* familiarise Tail bent backwards, and leaning to- 

 wards the left* 



Found of many sizes and varieties, the original animal of which 

 ¥6 supposed to be the Shepherd's dog, distinguished by. its erect 

 cars, and tail very wooly underneath. 



Head carinate on the crown: lower-Up hid by the upper, in- 

 dented and naked at the sides : whiskers in 5 or 6 rows : nostrils 

 turned outwards into a semilunar furrow : ears, the upper margin 

 reflected, anterior 3-lobed, posterior doubled : face with 7 hairy 

 warts: teats 10, 4 of which are on the breast : fur with 8 ridges, 

 on the neck, breast, fore-legs, belly, eyes, loins, ears, and near the 

 anus : feet slightly palmate,, with, sometimes a. spurious toe or two 

 behind.. 



0. C. Lupus. Pale yellowish-grey: tail bent inwards, 

 bushy, tipt with black. 



Wolf. Pennant Brit. Zool. 1. tab. 6. 



Body about as large as a Greyhound, pale brown with a yellow- 

 ish tinge 1 head and nee A cinereous : head long : nose pointed.: ears 

 sharp,, erect : teeth large : legs long : hair rather long. 



10. C. Valpts. Yellowish-brown, whitish beneath: tail 

 straight, bushy, tipt with white. 



Fox. Schreber 3. p. 345. tab. 90. 



Head broad* forehead flat : nose sharp : ears erect, sharp, tipt with 

 black : eyes rather oblique : lips white '.fore-feet black. 



5. FELIS. Cat. 



11. F. CatuSr Tail long, barred with distinct rings: forehead 

 with 7 stripes between the ears. 



Cat. Johns. Quadrup. t. 72. Buff on 6. p. 20. t. 1* 



Body when in a wild state yellowish-grey with blackish stripes, 

 3 disposed longitudinally on the back, those on the sides spiral ; tip 

 of the nose and lips black : ears smooth, rounded:, soles of the feet 

 black :. claws horn-colour, curved. 



6. VI V ERR A. WeeseU 



12. V. Foina. Blackish chesnut: throat and breast white. 



Martin.. Brit. Zool. tab. 6. n. 15. Buffon.y. pi. 15 



Body about 18 inches long, blackish tawny, paler beneath : head 

 small, reddish-brown : ears broad, rounded : eyes lively : hair of 

 the body cinereous at the bottom, bright chesnut in the middle, and 

 tipt with black: tail full of hair, darker than the body, about 10 

 inches long : palms of the feet clothed, with thick down: elau/s 

 vrhite^sharp^ 



