. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 18. Monachus albiventer. Skull. From Cuvier, Oss. Foss. Muzzle rather elongate, broad, hairy, with a slight groove between the nostriLs; whiskers small, quite smooth, flat, tapering. Fore feet short; fingers gradually shorter to the inner one; claws 5, flat, truncate. Hiad feet hairy between the toes; claws very small; hair short, adpressed, with very little or no under-fur. Skull depressed; nose rather depressed, rather elongate, longer than the length of the zygomatic arch; palate angularly notched behind. Cutting-teeth ^, large, notched wit
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 18. Monachus albiventer. Skull. From Cuvier, Oss. Foss. Muzzle rather elongate, broad, hairy, with a slight groove between the nostriLs; whiskers small, quite smooth, flat, tapering. Fore feet short; fingers gradually shorter to the inner one; claws 5, flat, truncate. Hiad feet hairy between the toes; claws very small; hair short, adpressed, with very little or no under-fur. Skull depressed; nose rather depressed, rather elongate, longer than the length of the zygomatic arch; palate angularly notched behind. Cutting-teeth ^, large, notched within, the middle upper much smaller, placed behind the intermediate ones. Canines large, conical, sharp-edged. Grinders 1^, large, croAvded, placed obhquely with regard to the central pala- tine line; crown large, conical, with several small conic rhombic tubercles. Lower jaw angulated in front below, with diverging branches, the lower edge of the branches rounded, simple. The grinders, except the two first in both jaws, are implanted by two roots; their crown is short, compressed, conical, with a cingOlum strongly developed on their inner side, and developing a small ante- rior and posterior accessory cusp; the upper jaw is much less deep than in Halkhoerus; the canines are relatively large, and the nasal bones are much shorter. The feet, palate, and teeth resemble those of the genus Callo- cephahis (C. communis), but the grinders are larger and less deeply lobed ; and it has the smooth whiskers of the restricted genus Phoca (P. harhata). It diff'ers from the latter genus in the depressed form of the skull, the large tubercular grinders, and the angular termina- tion to the palate. As the other subtropical Seal, Phoca troincalis (Gray, Cat. Seals, B. M. 28), from Jamaica, described from an imperfect skin without a skull, has similar small smooth wliiskers, it may very probably, when its skull has been examined, be found to belong to this genus, Avhich will then prove to be a su
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