YELLOW SEAL. 
tremity of the hind feet, about two feet and a 
half. Its colour is an uniform pale yellow^ or 
deep cream-colour, without any variegation. The 
head is rather small, and the nose somewhat point- 
ed: the ears are about an inch long, and are very 
narrow and pointed; and are somewhat leaf-shap- 
ed : the vibrissge or whiskers long and whitish : the 
teeth are rather blunt than sharp, and the two 
middle incisores or front teeth of the lower jaw 
are slightly emarginated. The fore feet are pin- 
niform, and without any appearance of toes or 
claws, and in shape somewhat resemble the fore 
fins of a turtle : the hind feet are strongly webbed, 
and have long and very distinct claws, of which 
the three intermediate are much larger than the 
exterior ones : the tail is about an inch in length. 
This Seal is in the Leverian Museum, and is a na- 
tive of the Magellanic Straits. It has never be- 
fore been figured, except in the plate of the 
Magellanic Vulture or Condor, in the first num- 
ber of the Museum Leverianum; but the figure 
there represented, being merely intended as an 
accompaniment to the scenery of the plate, is, of 
course, only calculated to convey a general re- 
semblance of the animal. 
