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LEONINE SEAL. 
deriopiination of beef, to distinguish it from that 
of the Seal, which they termed lamb. 
LEONINE SEAL. 
Phoca Jubata. P. cernjice (maris) jubata. Lin* Syst* Nat. Gmel. 
p. 63. 
Reddish -brown Seal, with a large mane round the neck of the 
male. 
Leo marinus. Steller mv. act. Petrop. 2. /. 360, 
Sea-Lion. Cook^s'voy. 2. 203. Forster* s 'voy. 2. 513. 
Leonine Seal. Pennant ^adr. z. p. 288. 
This is so termed from the large and loose 
mane or floating hair with which the head and 
neck of the male is furnished. The nose is short 
and turns up a little: the eyes are large: the 
whiskers very large and strong; the hair on the 
whole body is smooth, short, and glossy : its co- 
lour is a deep brown ; but those of this species which 
are found on Kamtschatka are said to be reddish, 
and the females tawny. The males are far larger 
than females, and grow from the length of from ten 
to fourteen feet : the females are from six to eight 
feet, and of a more slender form than the males. 
The weight of a full-grown male is from twelve 
to fifteen hundred pounds. A still greater size 
has been ascribed to those of Falkland isles, viz. 
that of twenty-five feet in length, and nineteen or 
twenty feet round the shoulders. 
These animals, according to Mr. Pennant, in- 
jiabit, in vast numbers, the islands called Penguin 
