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British Museum, so that it is well known to which species his re- 

 marks refer. In a note to this paper Dr. Sclater observes : " I agree 

 with Dr. Peters * in thinking it best to retain the name jubata for 

 the Southern species, and to call the Northern one Stelleri. I con- 

 sider O. leonina Cuv. to be probably the same as 0. jubata, as appears 

 to be admitted by Dr. Peters in his last paper." f Dr. Sclater states 

 that he was mistaken in referring the living specimen brought by Le- 

 comte to the 0. Hookeri, and agrees with Peters \ and Gray in re- 

 garding it as 0. jubata. 



At the first session of the Zoological Society of London, held in No- 

 vember, 18G<S, Dr. Sclater § announced that a young female sea lion 

 {Otaria jubata), from the Falkland Islands, had been received during 

 the preceding August at the society's menagerie. ''This individual," he 

 says, " was the only survivor of eight examples of this animal captured 

 in various spots on the coast of the Falklands by Adolphe Alexandre 

 Lecomte, || the society's keeper, who had been sent out there by the 

 council of the society for the purpose of obtaining living specimens of 

 it." The different localities at which M. Lecomte met with this species 

 are mentioned in this communication, from which it appears that both 

 this animal and "the fur seal of the Falklands (Otaria falUandica)" 

 are far less numerous than formerly. The latter species was observed 

 in considerable numbers at the Volunteer Rocks. 



M. Lecomte also brought home a considerable number of skins and 

 skeletons of the sea lion, concerning which Dr. James Muriel! soon 

 published an exceedingly interesting communication. Lecomte's collec- 

 tion consisted of parts of fifteen individuals of the Otaria jubata, and of 

 one of the Arctocephalus nigrescens Gray. The latter species, however, 

 was represented by merely the "pectoral extremities" of an adult fe- 

 male ; the.- former by the skull and skin of an "adult male,"** the skins 

 and skeletons — the latter nearly complete — of four adult females, the 



* Monatsb. Berl. Ak. 1866, p. 670. 



t Ibid., p. 670. \ Ibid., 666. 



§ Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 627. 



|| Francois Lecomte, according to Dr. Murie. (Sec next foot-note.) 



H " Report on the Eared Seals, collected by the Society's Keeper, Francois Lecomte, 

 in the Falkland Islands," by James Murie, M. I)., etc., Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc, Jan. 

 1869, pp. 100- 109, PI. vii, and two woodcuts. 



** This specimen, according to Dr. Marie's measurements, was but little larger 

 than the so-called adult female", and hence cannot have been adult. Respecting the 



