The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . s. Ph. enstafa, Gm.; Ph. leonina, Fabr.âA species attaining a length of seven or eight feet, with loose skin uponthe head, which can be inflated into a sort of cowl, and is drawn over the eyes when the animal is menaced, atwhich time the nostrils also are pulled out like bladders. From the Arctic Ocean. Finally, The Myroungas {Macrorhinus, F. Cuv.; \_Cystophora, Nilsson,] )â Possess, with the incisors of the preceding, obtuse conical molars (fig. 39) [but mas
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . s. Ph. enstafa, Gm.; Ph. leonina, Fabr.âA species attaining a length of seven or eight feet, with loose skin uponthe head, which can be inflated into a sort of cowl, and is drawn over the eyes when the animal is menaced, atwhich time the nostrils also are pulled out like bladders. From the Arctic Ocean. Finally, The Myroungas {Macrorhinus, F. Cuv.; \_Cystophora, Nilsson,] )â Possess, with the incisors of the preceding, obtuse conical molars (fig. 39) [but massive canines], and muzzle lengthened into a short moveable proboscis. Thelargest known Seal is of this subgenus ; the Ph. leonina, Lin.âTwenty to twenty-four feet in length [sometimesthirty, according to English measure, and of great proportionatebalk]. Brown, the muzzle of the male terminated by a wrinkledsnout, which becomes inflated when the animal is angry. It is commonin the southern latitudes of the Pacific Ocean, and of great request forthe quantity of very superior oil with which it abounds. Those with external Kit:. 30 âTeeth ol M\ The Otaries {Otaria, Peron),âAre worthy of being formed into a separate genus, inasmuchas, besides the projecting auditory conch, the four middle upper incisors have a double cutting edge (astructure not hitherto remarked in any other animal); the exterior are simple and very small, and tliefour inferior forked : the molars are all simply conical. The toes of their anterior swimming-paws[which are placed far backward] are almost immoveable ; and the membrane of their hind feet isprolonged into a flap beyond each toe : all the nails are thin and flat. , Gm. (Sea iion of Steller, Pernatty,&c., but not of Anson, which refers to the My-rounga; the latter being also the Sea IFby of Per-natty). From fifteen to twenty feet [French], andmore, in length : the neck of the male coveredwith more frizzled and thickly-set hairs thanth
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