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and Seal islands, near Cape Desire, on the coast 
of Patagonia; and are found within the Magel- 
lanic Straits, and on Falkland islands, but have 
not been discovered in any other part of the 
southern hemisphere, or in any other place nearer 
than the sea between Kamtschatka and America. 
They live in famihes distinct from the Ursine and 
other Seals ; their manners, however, are nearly 
the same: they are polygamous, each male being 
accompanied by from two to thirty females. The 
males utter a snorting sound, and occasionally 
roar like bidls: the voice of the females resembles 
that of calves, and the young bleat like lambs, 
the food of the Leonine Seal consists of the smaller 
kinds of penguins, fish, seals, &c. but during the 
breeding season they are said to fast for three or 
four months, during which time they swallow a 
number of large stones, in order to keep their sto- 
machs in a distended state. 
URIGNE SEAL. 
Phoca Lupina. P. (tnauriculata? ) capite caninoy pedibus anterioribiis 
pinniformibus . 
Earless Seal with dog-like head, and fore feet shaped like fins. 
Urigne Seal. Pennant ^adr, p. 2^0, 
This is a smaller species than the former, be- 
ing found from about three to eight feet in. length. 
The body is thick at the shoulders, and gradually 
lessens to the hind legs. The head resembles 
that of a doQ*, with close cut ears : the nose is 
