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URSINE SEAL. 
Phoca Ursina. P. nigricans, naso simo, capite auriculato, pedihus 
anterioribus pinniformibus. 
Eared blackish Seal, with fiattish nose^ and fore feet shaped like 
fins. 
Ursus marinus. Steller no'v, act. Petrop. 2. p. 331. t» I5« 
Ursine Seal. Pennant ^adr. p. 281. 
This is one of the larger seals, growing to the 
length of eight feet, and weighing eight hundred 
pounds. The female falls far short of the size 
and weight of the male. The body of this spe- 
cies is of a very thick form, somewhat conical or 
decreasing towards the tail : the greatest circum- 
ference is about five feet, and near the tail about 
twenty inches : the nose projects like that of a 
pug dog, but the head rises suddenly: the nos- 
trils are oval^ and divided by a septum : the lips 
thick : their inside red and serrated : the whiskers 
long and white : the teeth lock into each other 
when the mouth is closed: in the upper jaw are 
four cutting-teeth, each bifurcated : on both sides 
is a small sharp canine-tooth, bending inwards: 
near that another larger: the grinders resemble 
canine-teeth, and are six in number in each jaw: 
in the lower jaw are also four cutting-teeth and 
two canine, but only four grinders in each jaw: 
in all thirty-six teeth : tongue bifid : eyes large 
and prominent: iris black: pupil emerald-green. 
The eyes are furnished with a fleshy membrane 
with which they may occasionally be covered: 
the ears are small and sharp-pointed; hairy with*- 
V. I. p. II. 18 
