BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 
tlie two exterior of which are much larger than 
the two middle ones : there ai'e also two very large 
but rather blunt canine-teeth^ remote from the 
cutting-teeth: and on each side are five small 
conical grinders or molares. In the lower jaw 
are only tw^o very small cutting-teeth ; two large 
canini like them in the upper jaw^, and five grind- 
ers on each side. The cutting-teeth themselves 
resemble the shape of the canini in miniature. In 
the British ]\Iuseum is a tolerably well preserved 
skin of a female, which formerly belonged to the 
Museum of the Royal Society. This species in- 
habits the seas about New Zealand, the island of 
Juan Fernandez, and the Falkland islands. In 
Juan Fernandez, during the breeding season, viz. 
in June and July, they are seen in great numbers 
suckling their young on the shore : they bring 
tw^o young at a birth : the females are observed to 
be excessively fierce during the time of rearing 
the young: towards evening both the male and 
female swim out a little way to sea, the female 
bearing the young on her back^ which it is said the 
male frequently pushes off, in order to oblige 
them to exercise their swimming powers. On 
the arrival of these animals on the breedino;- 
islands, they are said to be so excessively fat as 
to resemble skins of oil; the tremulous motion of 
the blubber being plainly perceivable beneath the 
skin. A single animal has been known to yield 
a butt of oil, and to be so full of blood that what 
has run out has filled two hogsheads. The flesh 
is eatable. Lord Anson's sailors eat it under the 
