. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 15. CALLOEHINTJS. 45 red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point. Skull short, forehead very convex and rounded.—P. 1859, 102. Fig. CallorHnus ursinus. Skull. Palate rather concave in front, narrowed and flattened behind, with a deep narrow hinder aperture, which has a regular ovate front edge; outer upper cutting-teeth moderate; orbit very large; zygoma very strong; grinders sma
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 15. CALLOEHINTJS. 45 red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point. Skull short, forehead very convex and rounded.—P. 1859, 102. Fig. CallorHnus ursinus. Skull. Palate rather concave in front, narrowed and flattened behind, with a deep narrow hinder aperture, which has a regular ovate front edge; outer upper cutting-teeth moderate; orbit very large; zygoma very strong; grinders small.—P. Z. ,117. Ursus marinus, Steller, Nm. Comm. Petrcrp. ii. 331. ;—hence Phoca uisina, Schreh. Sdugeth. iii. 289. t. 82; Omel. S. iV; i. 62; Sliaw, Zool. i. 266. t. 72: Fischer, &/n. 231: F. Cm. M4m. Mm. xi. 205. f. 1 (skuU ?). Otaria ursina, Desm. in P&ron 8r Zemeur, Voy.'ii. 41; Nouv. Diet. S. N. XXV. 695; Mamm. 249; Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 182; Wagner, Butt. Akad. Minchen, 1849,168; Wieffm. Arch. Nat. 1849,39; Schrenck, Amur-Lande, 189. Otaria ursina, var., Mtis. Leyden. Otaria Fabricii, Lesson, Diet. Class. S. N. xiii. 419, from O. Fahr. Otaria Kraschennenikovii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 420. Chat marin, Kraseliermenikow, Hist. Kamtsch. i. 306. Arctocephalus ursinus, ii*. Cuv. Diet. Set. Nat. xxxix. 564; Gray, in Brookes's Cat. Mas. 37; Zool. Ereb. Sf Terror, 3; Cat. Phoeidce 41; P. Z. S. 1869,103,107. t. 68 (skuU); Nilsson, Wieffm. Arch. Ursine Seal, Penn. Hist. Quad. ii. 6^6, 631. Ours marin, Buffon, Supp. vi. t. 47; Cuv. Bigne Anim. i. 167. Sea Bears, Forster, Cook's Second Voy. ii. 203. Young. Phoca nigra, Pallas, Zool. Bosso-Asiat. 107 ? CallorHnus u^iaus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, 357. Inhab. Northern Pacific Ocean, Kamtschatka. Behring's Straits. Sea of Ochotsk, Schrenck. a. Skin of adult male. 6. Skull: adult male. Behring's Straits.—Described in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 103. t. 68. Skins collected to sell to the Chinese.
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