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Zalophus Gillespii Gill. Gillkspik's IIaik Seal. 



Otarta Gillespii McBain, Proc. Edinb. Roy. Phys. Soc, I, 422, 1858. 



Arctocep/utlus Gillespii Gray, Proc. Loud. ZooT. Soc, 1859, 110,360, PI. 

 lxx ; Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 55. 



Zalophus Gillespii Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., V, 13, 1866. 



Otarin (Zdloplius) Gillespu Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866,275, 671. 



Zalophus Gillespii Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Series, 1866, 

 XVI II, 231. 



Otana Stelleri Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Mam. marin, 10, PI. xxi, 

 (animal), PI. xxil,Figs. 1-4, and 5-6 (skulls), 

 PI. xxin, Figs. 1 -9 (skeleton and teeth), 1842. 



" Olaria japonica Schlegel, MS." Peters. 



Color. — In color, as well as in general form, this species is similar to 

 E. Stelleri, but in size it is much smaller. Being without skins of this 

 species, I borrow the following from Schlegel's description in the Fauna 

 Japonica. In describing Japan specimens (under the name Otarin Stelleri) 

 he says the tints of the upper parts are "d'un gris jaunatre, un pen nuance 

 de noir sur le dos et sur la tete. Sur les parties inferieures et sur les ex- 

 tremites, la teinte generale dont nous parlons, passe insensiblement au 

 brun-roux ; mais cette couleur est tres-peu marquee sur le dessous du cou, 

 tandis qu'elle devient tres-foneee vers l'extremite des pieds, qui sont d'un 

 brun-roux noir assez profond." " Les poils," he adds, " sont en general 

 courts, puisqu'ils nc portent guere que trois a quatre lignes en longueur 

 sur le cou ou sur le dos, un peu raides et assez touffus. lis sont, sur les 

 parties superieures, bruns a la base et noirs au milieu, mais leur pointe 

 offre toujours des couleurs plus claires, qui fbrment les teintes generates de 

 1'animal." The specimen above described he states is a female, and re- 

 marks that another female he possessed differs from it in color only in 

 being generally darker or more deeply colored. 



Size. — The mounted skin of an adult male preserved in the Museum 

 of the Pays-Bas, he says, is "six pieds et deux ponces en longueur totale, 

 mesure depuis le nez jusqu'a 1'extremite de la queue." It differs from a 

 female specimen, he says, only in being larger and darker colored and in 

 having the hairs longer. 



The only specimens of this species I have been ab'e to examine are two 

 skulls, one of which was kindly loaned me by (he Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, and the other by the Smithsonian Institution. The former belongs 

 to a mounted skeleton, collected, as Dr. Stimpson informs me, In Professor 

 W. P. Trowbridge, formerly Lieutenant of United States Engineers some- 

 where between Puget Sound and San Francisco. The skeleton, without the 

 atlas and skull, Dr. Stimpson writes me, measures six fee.1 ; adding the 

 length of the latter gives a little less than seven feet as the whole length of 



