10 BULLETIN OF THE 



and those in the British Museum described and figured by Dr. Gray. A 

 skull of Tschudi's Otaria Ullvce is figured, and many interesting facts 

 are given respecting several of the species described by him in his pre- 

 vious paper. A list of the species is added, and while all of those 

 given by him a few months before are included in the enumeration, they 

 are numbered in such a way as to indicate that his estimate of them 

 had somewhat changed. The whole number is ten, but under No. 1 

 he has " Nos. 1 a," " 1 b," and " 1 c," and under Xo. 9, " No. 9 a."* 

 One is left somewhat in doubt, however, as to whether he regarded 

 these species as synonymous respectively with Nos. 1 and 9, or as sub- 

 species. Gray's Arctocephalus uigrcscens is now positively (previously 

 with a query) referred to 0. falklandica Shaw, to which species also his 

 own 0. Philippii is seemingly referred. Instead of dropping altogether 

 his subgenus Arctophoca, based at first solely on his 0. Philippii, 

 which he now appears to regard as a nominal species, he transfers 

 his 0. falklandica from Arctocephalus to Arctophoca. The Otaria 

 Stellcri of Schlegel is in this paper referred to 0. Gillcspii of McBain, 

 instead of in part to the 0. cinerea of Peron, and in part to the 

 Arctocephalus hiatus of Gray, as both he and Gray had previously re- 

 ferred it. In addition to the determination of the character of Schlegel's 

 0. Stelleri, the most important thing decided by this paper is the exact 

 character of Tschudi's 0. Ulloce, of which Peters was able to figure 

 and describe original specimens. 



In addition to the above-mentioned five papers published in 1866, — 

 an important year in the history of the literature of the Otariadee, — 

 Dr. Sclater states, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of the 

 same year,f that a "young living male sea bear (Otaria Hookeri), 

 captured mar Cape Horn, in June, 1862, by a French sailor named 

 Lecomte, had been added to the society's menagerie. This animal 

 had been exhibited by its captor in Buenos Ayres, and in various 

 parts of France and England, and is the one doubtless referred to by 

 Cray in the Appendix to his Catalogue of Seals and Whales. 



At about the same time Dr. Burmeister t also gives a description 



* 0. jubata ox Forster and Blainville is given as " Xo. 1 " ; 0. Byronia Blainv., as 

 •■ No. la"; 0. leonina F. Cuv. as " No 1 b," and 0. Godeffroyi Peters, as " No. 1 c"j 

 " No. 9 " is 0. falklandica Shaw, while his 0. Philipjni forms his " No. 9 a." 



t Proceedings London Zool. Society, 1866, p. 80, January, 1S66. 



t Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Series, Vol. XVIII, p. 99, PI. ix, February, 1866. 



