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MAMMALIA. FERiE. Phoca. 
Urfina, 
'JLconina. 
Jubata^ 
, . ORDER III. FER^. 
Fore-teeth upper 6 , JharpiJh; tujksjolitary. 
14. PHOCA. Fore-teeth acute, upper 5 j 
parallel, outer ones larger ; lower 6> 
parallel, diftinft, equal, obtufilh; tujks 
twice as long, acute, robuft, folitary, 
the upper remote from the fore-teeth, 
the lower from the grinders : grinders 
5—6, narrow, tricufpidate ; ears o • 
hind-feet fettered. 
*11115 IS a dirty, curious, quarrelfoine tribe, eaftly tamed, and 
polygamous ; flefh fucculent, tender ; fat, and fkin ufeful i 
they inhabit and Iwim under water, and crawl on land with 
difficulty, becaulp of their retrafted fore-feet and united hind- 
feet ; feed on fift and marine produaions, and fwallow Hones 
to prevent hunger, by dillending the flomach. 
Head with external ears. ' Vrfim Seal 
Inhabits Kamtfchatka, Neto Zealand, and tlic adjacent illandsi 
hvims impetuouny in large families, copulates on fhore, 
tearlefs, biting at what is thrown at it ; the old ones live bV 
themfelves, and grow very fat ; each has a peculiar Hone for 
Its bed, which it never deferts ; the males fight fiercely for 
their females and Hations, their combat is lingle and fair, 
two never, fighting againll one ; when grieved it ffieds teai'S 
plentifully* 
Body brown ; head crefied on the fore-part. 
T , , . , , - , „ tdoitle-nofed Seah 
Inhabits about the South Pole, and the coaft of Chili • has * 
hairy tubercle at the bafe of the fnout, which it inflates into a 
veficle and with which it avoids blows; fwims in flocks! 
lights for its females, and keeps watch. 
Teeth 2 in the lower jaw, a little prqjeaing; cye.r large; zohi/keff 
whne, annulate with red; feet Al palmate, 5 ttSs on eachi 
with nails growing out behind the tip; hind- feet ftretefod 
back, with a tail between, 2 inches long. 
Neck (of the male) covered with a mane. Maned 
Inhabits the northern Paeijic Ocean, and many of the Americct^ 
. toalts : j-pars nke a bull, 
Colo^l 
