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LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS. 



The White Antarctic or Crab-eating Seal. 



Phoca carcinophaga, Jacqniiiot and Pucberan, Zool. Atlas Voy. Pole Sud., pi. X., Xa. (1842-1853). 

 Lobodon carcinopharius, J. E. Gray, Zool. Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Vol. I., Mamm. (1844), pp. 5, 6. Pis. I., 



II. ; Barrett Hamilton, Rep. ' South. Cross' Coll. (1902), p. oo, ibuiue citata ; Brown, Mossman, and 



Pirie, Voy. 'Scotia,' (I'JOG), p. 122. 

 Lobodon carcinophaga, K. A. Audersson, Wiss. Ergeb. der Schwed. Siidpolar-Exped. Bd. V. 2 (1905), 



pp. 13-16. 



List of Mateeial in the 'Discovery's' Collection. 



No. 5, (J , adult skin and skuil. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 6, 9 , adult skin and skiill. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. K, (J , adult skill and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 9, ^ , adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 10, 9 , adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 28, 9 , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. .Ross Sea. 



No. 29, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 30, 9 , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 39, 9 , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 12, S . iid. skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. CT S. 178' E. 



{Mounted for B. 31. Gallery by Rowland Ward.) 

 No. 75, ad. skull. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 79, <J ad. skull. McMurdo Sound. 



No. 83, ad. skull. One of N. Hanson's, picked up by me at Ca[)e Adare. 

 Also the skeleton of an adult ^ . 



Material in the ' Morning's ' Collection. 



No. 76, M. 10, i , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 7, M. 20, i , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 15, M. 8, (^ , adult skin aud skull. January, 1903. 



No. 17 (M. 8)", 9 , juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 57, M. 12, i , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 59, M. 19, (J, adult skin and skull. .January, 1903. 



No. G3, M. 7, 9 1 iidult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 61, JI. 11, cJ , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 58, M. 9, (J , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 19 (M. 9)% 9 , juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. 



No. 20 (M. 5), $ , juv. skin. December 27, 1902. Pack 



No. 21 (M. 10)", (J , skin and skull. January 1, 1903. 



No. 22 (M. 1), (J , adult skin and skull. January. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



Also the skeleton of an ad. (J . 



Lobodon has been seen by almost every expedition that has entered the Antarctic 

 pack ice, and in all probability it is to be found all round the Antarctic Circle. Stray 

 examples have been recorded, as with other similar species, from the most unexpected 

 quarters. A specimen, now said to be in the La Plata Museum, was taken near San 

 Sidro, north of Buenos Ayres, in lat. 34° 28' S., while other two examples have been 

 taken on the coast of Australia, the one at Melbourne, the other at Portland, Victoria, 

 in 1897 and 1894 respectively (.see "Nature," February 5th, 1903, p. 327); these are 



