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Phoca nigra Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., I, 107. (Young.) 

 Otaria ursina Peuox, Voy. Terr. Austr., II, 41, 1816. 

 " " Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., XXV, 595, 1817. 



" " Desmarest, Mam., I, 249, 1820. 



" " Gray, Griffith's An. Kingd., V, 182, 1827. 



" Nilsson, Archiv f. Naturgesch. 1841 (in part). 

 " " J. Muller, Ibid., 333. 



" " A. Wagner, Ibid, 1849, 39. 



Otaria Kraschenninikowii Lesson, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., XIII, 419, 1826. 

 Otaria Fubricii Lesson, Ibid , 420. 



Otaria (Callorhinus) ursinus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, I860, 373, G72. 

 Arctocephalus ursinus Gray, Cat. Phoeidrc, 41, 1850; not A. ursinus F. Cuv., 

 or only in part. 

 " " Gray, Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc., 1859, 103, 107, PL lxxiii, 



skull. 

 " Gill, Proe. Essex Inst., V, 13, 1866. 

 Callorhinus ursinus Gray, Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc., 1859, 359. 

 " Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 44, 1866. 

 " " Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., XVIII, 234, 



1866. 

 Arctocephalus monteriensis Gray', Proe. Lond. Zool. Soc, 1857, 360 (in part). 

 Arctocephalus californianus Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 51, 18C6 (in part). 

 Sea Cat, Kraschenninikow, Hist. Karnt, 306, 1704. 



Ours Marin, Buffon, Hist. Nat., Suppl., VI, 336, PI. xlvii, 1782 (in part). 

 Ursine Seal, Pennant, Hist. Quad., I, 526, 531, 1792 (in part). 



Color — (Male.) General color above, except over the shoulder 

 nearly black, varying in different individuals of equal age from nearly 

 pure black to rufo-grayish black. Over the shoulders the color is quite 

 gray. The sides of the nose and the lips are brownish, as is a consid- 

 erable space behind the angle of the mouth, and a small spot behind the 

 ear. The neck in front is more or less gray. The breast and the axilla; 

 are brownish-orange. The limbs are reddish-brown, especially near their 

 junction with the body, as is also the abdomen. The hairs individually 

 vary considerably in color, some being entirely black nearly to their base, 

 and others entirely light yellowish-brown; others are dark in the middle 

 and lighter at each end. The naked skin of the hind limbs, the nose, ami 

 the anal region is black. 



(Female.) The general color of the female is much lighter than that 

 of the male. Above it is nearly uniformly gray, varying to darker or 

 lighter in different individuals and with age. The color about the 

 mouth is brownish, varying to rufous, of which color are the axilhe, the 

 breast, and the abdomen. The sides an' brownish-gray. At the base all 

 the hairs are usually brownish, like the under-fur, with a broad subter- 



