SEAL. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Six cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and fqur in the lower. 
Two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Molares have three knobs on each of their grinding surfaces. 
Five palmated toes on each foot. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Piioca vituuna. Ph. capite inauriculato et cervice laevi, corpore 
fusco. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 63. 
Has no external ears, the neck smooth, the 
body of a dark brown colour. 
Veau marin ou Loup de mer. Belon. Poiss. 
p. 25. f. 26. 
Commom Seal. . Sm. Buff. v. 7. p. 328. pi. 254. Penn. Brit. 
Zool.v. 1 . no.37.pl. 12. Penn. Hist. Quadr, 
13. 2. p. 270. Bew. Quadr. p. 4 69. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. pi. 70. 
Seals live in society, and are found in great num- 
bers in the northern parts of Europe and America. 
In the Caspian sea they abound, and are said to 
swarm near the Arctic circle. They are by no means 
uncommon on most of the rocky shores of this king- 
