The seal-lion is much larger than more the common seal, and it differs from it in many aspects. It has a long neck, with long hair like a lion’s man; but its head, with its pointed ears, large eyes, and whiskered lips, is more like that of a Polar bear than that of a lion. Sometime, indeed, voyagers speak of it as the sea-bear. It is distinguished from the common seal by possessing ears outside the head, like a land animal.