Phoca major dent thus caninis t edits , palmis ante- 
r tor thus digit at is , ungitlatis , pojierioribus l at is 
or dinar iis , corpore longme. 
The long-boclied Teal, 
On the coafts of Cornwall, and the Ifle of White. 
Defcribed and figured in the Tranfa&ions, N° 469, 
p- 3S3. 
Phoca major, dentibus caninis techs, palmis an- 
terioribus digitalis, ungitlatis , pojierioribus la- 
tis bifidis. 
Manati. De Laet. Pet. Martyr. 
Sea-lion. Lord Anfon. 
Nicaragua, and other American cpafts, and the 
Jfland of Juan Fernandes. 
P. S. Monfieur de la Condamine, in the account of 
his voyage down the River of the Amazons, de- 
feribes an animal, which, without doubt, is a 
fpecies of the phoca : his account is as follows : 
“ I drew from the life the largeft frefh-water 
tc filh, which the Spaniards and Portuguefe have 
“ call’d the fea-cow, or ox-filh j which muft not be 
cc confounded with the phoca , or fea-calf. This 
<c fifh feeds on herbage on the brinks of rivers : the 
“ flefii and fat are very like that of veal : the fe- 
“ males have dugs to fuckle their young withal : 
“ fome have made this fiih refemble too nearly 
<c the ox, by attributing horns to it, which na- 
“ ture never defigned it. It is not amphibious, 
“ properly fpeaking, for it never goes intirely out 
u of the water 5 being incapable of doing foj 
Q, “ having 
