276 ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS CALIFORNIAN SEA LION, 



nature of its pelage, and in other external features, it is radi 

 cally distinct from the whole group of Fur Seals, as it is also in 

 its high sagittal crest. In size it is nearest Arctocephalits. The 

 body is rather slender, and the head is narrow, long, and 

 pointed, and with this slenderness of form is coordinated a. 

 corresponding litheness of movement. 



The genus is restricted, so far as known, to the shores of the 

 North Pacific and the Australian Seas, and is apparently repre- 

 sented by two species, the one confined mainly, if not wholly, 

 to the western coast of the United States, and the other to tem- 

 perate (and tropical?) portions of the eastern coast of Asia, 

 from Japan southward, and the northern shores of Australia. 

 The genus is thus southern or subtropical in its distribution, 

 occurring on both sides of the equator, but not in the colder 

 waters of either hemisphere. 



ZALOPHUS CALIFOENIANUS (Lesson) Allen. 

 Californian Sea Lion. 



Otaria californiana, LESSON, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 420 (based 

 on "Le jeuneLion niarin de la Californie," Choris, pi. xi). SCHINZ, 

 Synop. Mam., i, 1844, 473 (from Lesson). 



flioca calif orniana, FISCHER, Syii. Mam., 1829, 231 ( = Otaria californiana, Les- 

 son). 



Otaria gillespii, M'BAIN, Proc. Edinb. Eoy. Soc., i, 1858, 422. 



ArotooepJialits gilUespii,* GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 110, 360, pi. Ixx 

 (from cast of the skull described by M'Bain) ; Cat. Seals and Whales, 

 1866, 55. 



Zalo2>lti<* f/illespii, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 13. GRAY, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 1866, 231; Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 

 1871,28; Hand-List Seals, etc., 1874, 41. SCOTT, Mam. Rec. and 

 Extinct, 1873, 20. THOMPSON, Forest and Stream (newspaper), xii, 

 1879, 66 (habits and breeding in confinement). 



Otaria (Zaloplms) gillespii, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 275, 671. 



? Otaria jubata, VEATCH, J. R. Browne's Resources of the Pacific Slope, 

 [app.], 1869, p. 150 (mainly, if not wholly; Cerros Island, L. Cal.). 



Lion Mar in de la Californie, CHORIS, Voy. Pittoresque. 



Sea Lion \_of California'], SCAMMON, Overland Monthly, viii, 1872, 266 (in 

 part). GURNEY, Zoologist, 1871, 2762 (Southern California). 

 STEARNS, Amer. Nat., x, 1876, 177 (in part). 



Lobo marino, Spanish; Sea Lion and California Sea Lion, English. 



HABITAT. Coast of California. 



EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. Color .dark chestnut -brown, 

 darker (blackish-brown) on the limbs, ventral surface, and the 



* Spelled "gUliearpii"l)j Gray and most other writers, but "yillcspii" by 

 M'Baiu, who named it for his friend Dr. Gillespie. 



