204 FAMILY OTARIID^. 



Phoque," ou which the name pusilla rests,* must have come 

 from the Cape of Good Hope.t The Fur Seals of South 

 America are recognized as belonging to two species, those of 

 the east coast, the Falkland Islands, the southern extremity of 

 the continent, and the west coast northward to Chili being re- 

 ferred to Arctocephalns falldandicm, while those from Juan Fer- 

 nandez and Masafuera Islands are assigned to A philippi. We 

 are therefore left to suppose that his and Gray's A. nigrescens, 

 his A. argentata^ Gray's Euotaria latirostris, and Scott's A. 

 grayi and A, eulophus, are regarded by him as synonyms of 

 these species. The Fur Seal of Australia he calls Arctocephalus 

 brevipes, citing " Otaria cinerea Quoy et Gaiinard, Voy. Astro- 

 labe, Zoolog. i, p. 89 (non Pe"ron)." He also recognized A. ele- 

 gam from Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (to which he 

 doubtfully referred A. tropicalis. Gray); A. gazella, from. Ker- 

 gueleii Island; and the A.forsterij Lesson, from New Zealand 

 and the Antarctic Seas to the southward of New Zealand. Four 

 of his species, namely, Arctocephalus elegans, A.forsteri, A. ga- 

 zella, and A. pliillppii, appear to me to be invalid, while under 

 his Eumetopias gUlespi, I believe he has confounded two quite 

 distinct species, namely, Zalophus gillespi and Z. lobatux. Pe- 

 ters's thirteen species are the following : 



1. Otaria jubata (Forster). 



2. Eumetopias stelleri (Lesson). 



3. Eumetopias gillespi (M'Baiu). 



4. Eumetopias cinerea (Pe"ron). 



5. Eumetopias liookeri (Gray). 



6. Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber). 



8. Arctocephalus brevipes, Peters. 



9. Arctocephalus elegans, Peters. 



10. Arctocephalus forsteri, Lesson. 



11. Arctocephalus gazella, Peters. 



12. Arctocephalus philippi, Peters. 



13. Arctocephalus ursinus (Liiine"). 



7. Arctocephalus falklandicus, Shaw, j 



Five are Hair Seals and eight are Fur Seals. Three only are 

 given as found in the northern seas, while ten are recognized 

 as occurring in the southern. 



From the foregoing it will be seen how widely opinions have 

 differed respecting the number of species and their generic 

 affinities among recent writers on this group, and how unstable 

 have been the views of the two leading authorities in this field 



* See anted, p. 194, second footnote. 



t G. Cuvier supposed it to have come from the Cape, because Pages (see 

 Buffou's Hist. Nat., Suppl., vi, 357) had reported the young Otaries of the 

 Cape a,s of a black color (Oss. Foss., 3d ed., v, 220) ; but it is now well known 

 that all Fur Seals are black when young. On the other hand, Daiibeutou 

 insisted that Buffon's "Petit Phoijue" (see Desmarest, Mam., p. 251) came 

 from "1'Inde." 



t Antea, p. 20^, footnote. 



