770 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



which I have access, I find the following, which seems to have 

 been generally overlooked by later writers on these animals : 

 "Seals haunt some of these islands [Galapagos], but not so 

 numerous, nor their fur so good as at Juan Fernandez.' 1 '' He 

 refers to a very large one that repeatedly attacked him and 

 adds, "This amphibious beast was as big as a large bear."* 



In the footnote to page 211 it is stated that the occurrence of 

 Eared Seals at the Galapagos Islands seems not to be gener- 

 ally known. While there is no reference to their occurrence at 

 these islands by Gray and other leading writers on the group, 

 I find that Mr. Salvin, in discussing the probable habitat of the 

 Xema furcata (Ibis, 1875, p. 497), alludes to the fact incidentally, 

 as follows : " Still even were its Arctic character established, 

 it [Xema furcata] may yet be an inhabitant of the Galapagos 

 Islands, where an Otaria belonging to a northern species exists 

 and formerly abounded". "Northern", however, should read 

 southern, for the Otaria is 0. jultata, and consequently is not a 

 northern type. 



FOSSIL OTARIES. Add at page 217 the following : Professor 

 McCoy has recently described and figured t fossil remains of 

 Eared Seals from the Pliocene of Victoria, under the name 

 Arctocephalus iciUiaHtxt, sp. nov. The skull figured, which he 

 refers to as an "old male skull", bears a close resemblance to 

 the skull of a female of Zaloplim lobatus, from which, judging 

 from his description and figures, it does not very materially 

 differ. 



CAPTURE OF SEA LIONS FOR MENAGERIES. The following 

 interesting account of the capture of Sea Lions alive for me- 

 nageries is from the " Illustrated Guide and Catalogue of Wood- 

 ward's Gardens," of San Francisco, California (San Francisco, 

 1880, pp. 50-52), where it is credited to the " Santa Barbara 

 Press": 



"Nearly all the live seal, sea lions and sea elephants that 

 have been furnished Woodward's Gardens, in San Francisco, 

 and that have been sent to the Old World and the Eastern 

 States during the last fifteen years, have been captured from 

 the Santa Barbara Islands, across the channel from this city. 



" Every year there are more or less of these animals captured 



* Calender's Voyages, vol. iii, 1768, p. 307. 



tProd. Pahtont. Victoria, decade v, p. 7, pll. xli and xliv. 



