. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . List Ost. Spec. Brit. Mus., 1847, P- ?>2)- Teeth small, one-rooted; hind feet without nails; nose of adult male elongated into a tubular proboscis capable of dilatation and extension; palate short, emarginate. 511. angustirostris {Macrorhiniis), Gill, Proc. Chicago Acad. Scien., 1866, p. 2>?)- Elliot, Syn. N. Am. igoi, p. Seal. Type locality. St. Bartholomews Bay, Lower California, Mexico. Gcogr. Distr. Formerly from Cape Lazaro, Mexico, to PointReyes, coast of California. Now practically extinct. (ici
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . List Ost. Spec. Brit. Mus., 1847, P- ?>2)- Teeth small, one-rooted; hind feet without nails; nose of adult male elongated into a tubular proboscis capable of dilatation and extension; palate short, emarginate. 511. angustirostris {Macrorhiniis), Gill, Proc. Chicago Acad. Scien., 1866, p. 2>?)- Elliot, Syn. N. Am. igoi, p. Seal. Type locality. St. Bartholomews Bay, Lower California, Mexico. Gcogr. Distr. Formerly from Cape Lazaro, Mexico, to PointReyes, coast of California. Now practically extinct. (iciil. Char. Superior outline of skull irregularly arched fromthe lambdoidal suture to end of the nasals; snout of male lengthened,narrowed at end, widest behind last molar and equal to three and ahalf times the total length of skull; squamosal truncate above themeatus auditorius; palatines short, the posterior sinus semi-oval,the bottom being about midway between the snout and the lineof the jugular foramina; maxilla:? deeply incurved, line of molars 546 Fig. LXXX. Mirounga angustirostris. Sea-elephant. incurved; group of bristles over each eye; hind flippers eniarginate,hairy, without nails. Color. Light brown generally, becoming bluish after the hair isshed. Mcasurcmcuis. Total length, male, 18-20 feet. Female, totallength, 9 to 10 feet; length of posterior flippers, i foot to i foot 10inches; fore flippers, i foot 2 inches to i foot 5 inches; tail, 2 feet2^^ inches; tip of nose to corner of mouth, }i inch. Skull: male;occipito-nasal length, 245; Hensel, 2S2; palatal length, 141; fromanterior edge of intermaxillae to pterygoid hamuli, 205; greatestbreadth of zygomata, 223; mastoid breadth, 182; length of nasals,57; interorbital constriction, 40; greatest width of braincase, 50;length of lower jaw, 239; anterior edge of ramus to last molar, 82. Order IX. Insecfivora. The Insectivores. G. E. Dol)Son, Monograph of the Inscctivora, 1882. G. E. Dobson, Synopsis of the Sor
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