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it has two oblique holes which serve for tïie same 

 purpose. The eyes are large, globular, and furnish- 

 ed with long eyelashes ; the nose is like that of the 

 calf, as is the tongue ; the muzzle is short and blunt, 

 with long whiskers, the lips being of equal size, but 

 the upper a little channelled like that of the lion. 

 The teeth are thirty-four in number : ten incisors, 

 foiir canine, and twenty grinders. The forefeet, or 

 ïnore properly fins, have two very perceptible joints, 

 one corresponding with the shoulder blade, the other 

 with the elbow ; the metacarpal bones and the toes 

 are cartilaginous, and enclosed in a membraneous 

 sheath, which performs the office of a fore paw. 

 Each of these feet has four toes, which distinguishes 

 this from the other species of the phoca. The ex- 

 tremity of the body, which is tapered almost to a 

 point, is divided into two very short parts, repre- 

 senting the hind feet, the joints of which are very 

 visible. These feet are furnished with five fingers 

 of an unequal length, like those on the hand of a 

 man, united from the first to the third joint by a 

 rough membrane, which completely envelops each 

 finger, and even extends beyond it. At the junc- 

 tion of the hind feet is situated the tail, which is 

 about three inches in length. In both sexes the 

 generative parts are placed at the lower part of the 

 belly. They usually copulate the latter part of au- 

 tumn, and the female brings forth her young in the 

 spring, of which she has generally two, sometimes 

 three at a birth. She is distinguished from the male 

 by a longer neck, and a more delicate and beautiful 

 form. The urigne abounds in blood, which, when- 



