SEAL, 
339 
Cutting teeth, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Five palmated toes on each foot. 
Body thick at the fhoulders, tapering towards the tail. 
<pMX 7 j Arifi. hifi. An. lib. vi. r. 12. quad. i8g. Phil. firanf. abridge 
Oppian Halieut. V. 376. To/. XLVII. 120. tab. vi. fig. 3. 
Vitulus marls mediterranei—et Kaffigiah, Crantz hifi. GreenLl* 
oceani Randeletii , 4^3. 438. I2 3 * 
Le Vcau marin ou Joup de mer Phoca vitulina. Ph. capite lasvi 
Be Ion Poififons. 25. inaiiricul.ato. Lin.fyfi. tj6. Sial* 
Phoca Gefiner Pifc. 830. Worm. Faitn.fuec. No. 4. 
Muf. 289. Klein quad. 93 . Brijfion Le Phoque 4 de Buffon, xiii. 333.. 
quad. 162. tab. X lv. 
Seal, Seoile, or Sea Calf, Phoca Seal Br. Zool. I. 71. Br. Zool. il- 
five vitulus marinus. RailJyn. lufir.xWm. 
S. with large black eyes : large whifkers : oblong 
noflrils : flat head and nofe: tongue forked at the 
end : two canine teeth in each jaw : fix cutting 
teeth in the upper jaw ^ four in the lower: no ex¬ 
ternal ears : body covered with thick fiiort hair: 
fhort tail: toes furnifhed with flrong fharp claws : 
ufual length from five to fix feet: color very va¬ 
rious, dufky, brinded, or fpotted with white or yel¬ 
low. 
Inhabit moll quarters of the Globe, but in greateil 
multitudes towards the North and the South *, fwarm 
near the Arctic circle, and the lower parts of South 
America *, in both oceans. Found in the Cafpian f 
Sea, in the lake Aral , and lake J Baikal , which are 
* Dampier fays, that they are feen by thouiands on the ille of 
Juan Fernandez; that the young bleat like lambs ; that none are 
found in the South Sea , north of the equator , till lat. 21. that he never 
faw any in the Wefi Indies , except in the bay of Campeachj ; nor yet 
jn the Eafi Indies. I. 88, 8g. 
f BelVs fira-vels, I. 49. 
The fame, 280. 
Z 2 frefh 
XLI. SEAL. 
265*Commo»; 
