268 BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 
and 56. They swim very swiftly, at the rate of 
seven miles an hour, and are very fieixe and 
strong. They are said to be very tenacious of 
life, and to live a fortnight after receiving such 
wounds as would immediately destroy almost any 
other animal. 
BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 
Phoca Leonina. P. cap'te antke cristatOy corpore fusco. Lin. Byst. 
Nat, GmeL p. 63. 
Brown Seal, with the snout of the male furnished with a pro- 
jecting crest or inflated membrane. 
Sea-Lion. Jnson's voy. p. izz. 
Bottle-nosed Seal. Pennant ^uadr. 2. /. 286. 
This species (in the male) is distinguished by 
its projecting snout, Avhich hangs several inches 
over the lower jaw; the upper part consisting of a 
loose wrinkled skin, which the animal, when an- 
gry, has a power of inflating, so as to give the 
nose an arched or hooked appearance. It is a 
very large species, the male measuring twenty, 
and the female about eighteen feet in length. 
The feet are short: the hinder ones webbed in 
such a manner as to resemble a kind of fins : the 
eyes are large : the vibrissas or whiskers are also 
large and long : the general colour of the animal 
is a deep cream or dun, or rather a rust-colour: 
in the female the nose is blunt and tuberous at 
the top: the nostrils wide: the mouth rather 
small: in the upper jaw are four cutting>teeth, 
