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or any other writer. It may have been a young Sea-Elephant, 

 this being the only Phocid reported from that locality. 



In 1839 Hamilton, in his ''Natural History of the Amphibi- 

 ous Caruivora" * (pp. 124-227, 279, 280), recognized fifteen spe- 

 cies (adopting F. Cuvier's genera) of Earless Seals, as follows: 



I. Calocephulux citulina; 2. C. discolor (=fcetida)', 3. C, barbata; 

 4. C. bicolor (= monachus) ', 5. C.grcerilandica; 6. C. oceanica ( = 

 grcenlandica)', 7. C. hispida (=fcetida); 8. C. leporina ( = barbata)', 

 9. Halichocrus griseus ( = grypus)', 10. Stenorlujnchus leptonyx; 



II. & leopardina(=weddelli)' } 12. Pelagius monachus; 13. Stem- 

 matopus cristatus; 14. 8. mitratus (= cristata}} 15. Macrorhinus 

 proboscideus (=leoninus). Of these fourteen species nine only 

 are valid, and only six of these stand under their correct specific 

 names. He also gives a list of four doubtful ones, only the 

 first of which is described; These are the following : 1. Phoca 

 fasciata; 2. P. coxii ; 3. P. lupina; 4. P. punctata. 



The same year (1839) Kutorgat gave a detailed account of 

 PJioca fcetida, under the name Phoca communis, characterizing 

 two new varieties, which he called octonotata and nndulata. 



Temmiuck, in 1842, in the "Fauna Japonica" (Mammiferes 

 Marius, pp. 1-4), passed in review the Seals of the North Pacific, 

 discussing especially those indicated by Steller and Pallas. The 

 only species particularly described is Pallas's Phoca largha, 

 which he renamed Phoca nummularis. 



DeKay, in the same year (New York Zoology, part i, 1842, p. 

 53), based the name Phoca concolor upon New York examples 

 of Phoca vitulina, he believing the American animal to be spe- 

 cifically distinct from the European. 



In 1843 Lesson | described a specimen of Cystophora cristata 

 taken on the coast of France, under the name Phoca isidorei. 



In the same year (1843) Owen redescribed Lobodon carcino- 

 phaga under the name Stenorhynchus serridens. 



In 1844 Gray, in the "Zoology of the Erebus and Terror,", 

 described Ommatophoca rossi, a valid new species. 



Schiuz, in the same year (1844), in his " Systematische Ver- 

 zeiclmiss aller bis jetzt bekannters Saugethiere, oder Synop- 

 sis Mammalium-' (i, pp. 429-486), recognized twelve species of 

 Phoca, and mentioned three additional doubtful ones, as follows : 



* Forming vol. viii of the Mammalia of Jardiue's "Naturalist's Library". 

 tBull. Soc. Imp. desNat. de Moscoti, anne 1839, pp. 178-196, pll. xiii-xviii. 

 t Revue Zoolgique, 1843, p. 256; Echo du Monde Savant, 1843, p. 228. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S43, p. 131. 

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