. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. CARNARIA. 99 The Monk {Pelagius, F. Cuv.)— Also possesses four incisors to each jaw ; but the grinders form obtuse cones, with a slightly marked process before and behind. There is one in the Mediterranean, Ph. monaclius, Gm., from ten to twelve feet in length. It is particularly found among the Grecian and Adriatic Isles, and was probably the species best known to the ancients. [The IIalkets {Halichœnis, Nilsson). Grinding teeth of the upper jaw simple ; those of the lower with an inconspicuous tubercle before and be
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. CARNARIA. 99 The Monk {Pelagius, F. Cuv.)— Also possesses four incisors to each jaw ; but the grinders form obtuse cones, with a slightly marked process before and behind. There is one in the Mediterranean, Ph. monaclius, Gm., from ten to twelve feet in length. It is particularly found among the Grecian and Adriatic Isles, and was probably the species best known to the ancients. [The IIalkets {Halichœnis, Nilsson). Grinding teeth of the upper jaw simple ; those of the lower with an inconspicuous tubercle before and behind. Muzzle deep and obliquely truncated : the head flat, and brain comparatively very small. II- gryphiis. Nils., a species nearly as large as the Bearded Seal, inhabits the Baltic and British seas, where it would seem to be not uncommon. Its intelligence has been observed to be very inferior to that of the true Phocic] The IIoodcap {Stenimatojyus, F. Cuv.). Four superior, and two inferior incisors; the grinders compressed and slightly three-lobed, supported by thick roots. Ph. cristata, Gm. ; Ph. leonina, Fabr.—A species attaining a length of seven or eight feet, with loose skin upon the head, which can be inflated into a sort of cowl, and is drawn over the eyes when the animal is menaced, at which time the nostrils also are puffed out like bladders. From the Arctic Ocean. Finally, The Myroungas {Macrorhinus, F. Cuv. ; [Ci/stopfiora, Nilsson,] )— Possess, with the incisors of the preceding, obtuse conical molars (fig. 39) [but massive canines], and muzzle lengthened into a short moveable proboscis. The largest known Seal is of this subgenus ; the Ph. leonina, Lin.—Twenty to twenty-four feet in length [sometimes thirty, according to English measure, and of great proportionate bulk]. Brown, the muzzle of the male terminated by a wrinkled 8nout, which becomes inflated when the animal is angry. It is common in the southern latitudes of the Pacific Ocean, and of great re
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