EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 233 



Otaria (Enmetopias) xtcllci-i, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, I86h', 274,671. 



Eumctopias slcllcri, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser.,xviii, 1830,233; 

 Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales in Brit. Mus., 1871, 30 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Loud., 1872, 737 (in part), tigs. 4, 5 (the young skull on which 

 Arctocephalus monter'u n;,i:*, < ,1 ,-i\ , was in part based); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1873, 776 (its occurrence in Japan stated to be doubtful) ; 

 Hand-List of Seals, etc., 1874, 40. ALLEN, Bull. Mus. C?>mp. Zool.,ii, 

 1870, 46, pll. i, iii, figg. 9-15, and tig;;. 1-5 in text. SCAMMOX, Marine 

 Main., 1874, 124, four woodcuts of animal pp. 12'J, 127. ELLIOTT, r 

 Report ou the Prybilov or Seal Islands of Alaska, 1873 (text not ' 

 paged, rive plates) ; Condition of Affairs in Alaska, 1875, 152; Scrib- 

 uer's Monthly, xvi, Oct., 1878, 870 (popular account, with figures). 



Stemmatopias steUeri, VAN BENEDEN, Ann. du Mus. Roy. d'Hisf. Nat. du Bel- 

 gique, pt. i, 1877, 15 (in text), lapsus penna' for Eumetopias stelleri? 



Phoca leonina, PALLAS, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., i, 1831, 104 (= P. jubata, Gineliu). 



A.rctocephalus inontericnsis, GKAV, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 358, 360, pi. 

 Ixxii, skull (in part only ; the skin referable to Callorhiuus ursinus') ; 

 Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 49. 



Arctocephalus calif ornian us, GRAY, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 51 (A. montc- 

 riensis, Gray, 1859, in part ; not = Otarla californiana, Lesson). 



Eumetopias californianus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 13 (= Arctocephalus 

 monteriensis, GRAY, 1859, " and possibly also [identical] with Otaria 

 stelleri, Miiller"; hence not = 0. California/no,, Lesson). 



? Eumetopias dongatus, GRAY, Proc. Zoiil. Soc. Lond., 3873, 776, figs. 1, 2 

 (=E. steUeri, Gray, ib., 1872, 737, figs. 1-3, Japan?). 



? Phocarctos elongatits, GRAY, Hand-List Seals, etc., 1874, 30, pi. xxi, xxii. 



Meerlnwcn. STELLER, Beschreib. von sonderbarer Meerthiere, 1753, 152. 



Le Lion marin, BUFFON, Hist. Nat., Suppl., vi, 1782, 337 (in part only). 



Leouiiu' Seal, PENNANT, Arctic Zool., i, - , 200 (in part only). 



Lion Marin, CHORIS, Voyage Pittoresque, lies Aleontienno, 1822, 12 (not 

 = Lion mariii dc la Californie, pi. xi, "Port San-Francisco et ses 

 Habitants"). 



Leo marinus, the Sea King, ELLIOTT, Scribuer's Monthly, xvi, 879, Oct., 1878. 



"See-Vitchie, ! ' Russian; Lion marin, French; SeeWwe, German; Sea Lion, 

 Hair Seal, English. 



HABITAT. Shores of the Xorth Pacific, from Behring's 

 Straits southward to California and Japan. 



EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. Length of full-grown male eleven 

 to twelve and a half or thirteen feet, of which the tail forms 

 three or four inches ; girth about eight to ten feet 5 weight vari- 

 ously estimated at from one thousand to twelve hundred or 

 thirteen hundred pounds.* The weight of the full-grown female 



* A skull of this species in the National Museum (No. 4702), collected at 

 Fort Point. Bay of San Francisco, July, 1854, bears a label with the follow- 

 ing legend: ''Length 13 ft. 8 in. ; weight, by estimate, one ton." 



Captain Bryant, in some MSS. notes on this species recently received, 

 states that the full-grown male measures 13 to 14 feet from the tip of the 

 aiose to the end of the ouMretchcd Innd-fcet, and from 7i to 9 feet in girth 



