196 FAMILY OTARIID.E. 



Steller=CallorMnu8 ursinus); 5. Otaria pernettyi(= Otaria juba- 

 ta) ; C. Otaria forsteri (embraces all the Fur Seals of the Southern 

 Hemisphere) ; 7. Otaria molUssina (" Lesson et Garnot, Zoologie 

 de la Coquille, pi. iii, p. 140" ; habitat, " lies Malouines " ; the long 

 description contains nothing in itself distinctive of any species, 

 but it has been determined, by Mlssoh and Gray, from the skull 

 and skin in the Paris Museum, to be a young Otaria jubata) ; 8. 

 Otaria peroni (= " Otaria peroni, Desm., sp. 382"; embraces 

 " Plioca pusilla Linn.", "Petit Phoque, Buffou," "Otarie de La- 

 lande, F. Cuvier," and " Loup inarm, Pages"; habitat, Cape 

 of Good Hope ; formerly referred by Gray to his Arctoceplialus 

 delalandi, to which it is mainly referable); 9. Otaria eoronata 

 ("Desm., spec. 383; Pkoca eoronata, Blaiuv."; undeterminable, 

 and habitat unknown) ; 10. Otaria cinerca ("Peixm et Lesueur," 

 as above); 11. Otaria albicollis ("Peroii et Lesueur," as above); 

 12. Otaria flavescens (= u Plioca flavescens, Shaw," as above; not 

 determinable) ; 13. Otaria shaici (= Phoca . falMandicus, Shaw, 

 therefore = Arctocephalus falklandicus, auct.) ; 14. Otaria liau- 

 villii (" G. Cu^er, Oss. Foss., t. v, p. 220"; = Arctoceplialus faUc- 

 landicm, auct.; habitat, "lies Malouines"); 15. " Otaria moli- 

 naii" ( = u Plioca porcina, Molina"; no tangible description, and 

 wholly undeterminable). 



Fischer, in 1829-30,* appears to have recognized fifteen (only 

 twelve have numerals prefixed) species of Eared Seals, which 

 are the same as those described by Lesson in 1828, with the ex- 

 ception that Lesson's Otaria fdbridi is not admitted, and Gray's 

 Arctocephalus lobatm is added. 



Hamilton, in 1839,t recognized twelve species, as follows : 1. 

 " Sea-Lion of Steller" (= Eumetopias stelleri) ; 2. " Sea-Lion of 

 Forster" (= Otaria jubata} ; 3. " Sea-Lion of Pernetty" (= Ota- 

 ria jubata, mainly); 4. "Pusilla, or Cape Otary" (" Otaria 

 pusilla, Desm.," but really based on a skull from the Cape of 

 Good Hope); 5. " Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Steller (= Cal- 

 JorMnus ursinus] ; 6. " Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Forster " 

 ( = Arctocephalus falklandicus, auct.); 7. " Sea Bear, from speci- 

 men in the British Museum" (=? Otaria jubata, according to 

 Gray); 8. " Lesson's Otary, 0. molUssina, Lesson" (=Arctocepha- 

 Im falldandicus] ; 9. and 10. "Ash-coloured and white-necked 

 Otaries" (= Otaria cinerea and 0. alMcollis, Peron); 12. "Com- 

 mon Fur-Seal of Commerce" (= Arctocephalus falldandicus}* 



* Synopsis Maruinaliurn, pp. 230-234, 374 (i. c. 574). 



t Amphibious Carnivora, etc. (Jardine's Nat. Library, Mam., TO!, viii). 



