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LITTLE SEAL. 
Phoca Pusilla. P. capita la'vi subauriculato, corpore fusco, Lin» 
Syst, Nat, Gmel p. 6^;, 
Subauriculated dusky Seal^ with smooth head. 
Le petit Phoque. . Buff, 13. p. 333. />/. 53. 
Little Seal. Pennant ^adr, p, 280. 
In this species the hair is said to be soft, 
smooth, and longer than in the Common Seal : 
the colour on the head and back dusky: beneath 
brownish : the leno-th two feet four inches : th^ 
four middle cutting-teeth of the upper jaw are bi- 
ficated : the two middle of the lower slightly tri- 
furcated: the ears very small: the webs of the 
feet extend very far beyond the toes and nails. 
This animal is figured in Buffon's Natural History, 
under the title of Le petit Phoque, and the speci- 
men is said to have been brought from India, but 
Mr. Pennant imagines this to be an erroneous 
idea, arising from some misinformation, since, 
from the authority of Dampier, as well as of mo- 
dern voyagers to the East Indies, it should seem 
that no seals are observed in that ocean* 
