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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
Suborder PINNIPEDIA. 
PHOCID^. 
There does not appear to be any published record of the capture of a seal on the 
coast of Egypt. In the ‘ Symbolae Physicse’ Ehrenberg says:—“We heard that one 
small species of seal resembling CalocepTialus vitulinus was sometimes captured in the 
Libyan Sea, near Alexandria, but we did not see it.” The seal referred to is no 
doubt the Monk Seal, Monachus monackus {M. albiventer), since this is the only species 
which enters the Mediterranean. 
No seal is known to occur in the Eed Sea.—W. E. de W. 
