URSINE SEAL, 
Georgia, and the Falkland Islands. Pennant 
suspefts, that they are also to be met with in 
the Island of Juan Fernandez ; the second kind 
of the different Seals so iiTiperfe6lly described 
by Don Ulloa, seeming to be of this species. 
I may add," says Pennant, " that Alexander 
Selkirk speaks of Seals which come on shore 
in that island, in November, to whelp ; which 
nearly corresponds with the time our late cir- 
cumnavigators saw them in NewYear's Islands, 
where they found them and their young in De-^ 
cember. Lastly, I may mention the Isles of 
Gallopagos, where Capt.Woodes Rogers says 
he was attacked by a fierce Seal as big as a 
Bear, and with difnculty escaped with his 
life." 
The Ursine Seal, is the name which Pennant 
substitutes for the Sea Bear of Steller. It is 
also the Sea Bear, of Brisson ; the Phoca Ur- 
sin:i, of Linnaeus ; and the Sea Cat, of Muller. 
Buffon, who by no means^ properly discrimi- 
nates the different species of Seals, does not 
even mention this particular animal. 
This Seal is one of the larger species. It 
grows 
