PHOCA MIROITNGA ARCTOCEPHALUS. 205 



In the oriqrinal description, owing to the confusion caused by the double entry 

 of one specimt-n in two different divisions of the Museum, Dr. J. A. Allen does 

 not seem to have been aware that this skin, 83223, is the same individual as skull 

 and skeleton 49550. 



Phoca stejnegeri Allen. 



Bull. Amer. .Mns. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 485, figs. 7, 8, and 10, December 12,1902. 



21310. Skull only. Adult nialo. Berin.o- Island. April 16, 1883. 

 Collet-tod l)y Dr. L. Stejueger. Orig-inul number l'J73. Cata- 

 logued Jul\'lT. 1S,S4. 



Skull perfect, except for loss <if two of the lower incisors. 

 Genus MIROUNGA. 



Macrorhinus angustirostns (iill. 



Communication Essex Institute, V, 186H-7, p. 13. Communicated October 16, 1865. 



Preliminary notice only. 

 Proc. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, p. 33, April, 1866. 

 = Mirounga an^stirostris (Gill). See Elliot, Land and Sea Mammals Middle 

 America and West Indies, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., IV, p. 245, 1904. 



4:7u4. Skull. Immature female. St. Bartholomew Bay. Lower Call- 

 foinia, Mexico, 1857. Collected by Dr. AV. O. Ayre.>^. Cata- 

 logued October 18, 1863. Skidl has the following legend on it 

 in old. nearly faded writing: " Macrorhinu.s | * * * Barthole 

 mew Bay | L. Califoinia \ Sea Elephant | * * po.sited Dr. 

 Ayre ! A ] " and number 4704. 



Skull fterfect except loss of the five right maxillary teeth, last three left max- 

 illary teeth, inner upper right incisor, right lower canine, and three mandibular 

 cheek teeth, left lower inner incisor and last mandibular cheek tooth. 



Type not de.^ignateil by imml)er. There is but one specimen in the Museum 

 answering to the locality anrl dimensions published by Dr. T. N. Gill, and that 

 is the above, No. 4704. The type skull is figured by Allen (Hist. North Amer. 

 Pinnipeds, 1880, figs. 57, 58, 59, 60, on pp. 744 to 747). Some of the teeth were 

 lucking at that date. On page 748, footnote to table. No. 4704 is said to be the 

 ty[)e of the .species. 



Family OTAKIID.T:. 



Genus ARCTOCEPHALUS. 



Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam. 



Proc. P.iol. Soc. Wash., XI, j.. 178, .luly 1, 1897. 



83617. Skull. Adub male. Picked up on the beach on the we.^t .side 

 of Guadelupe Island, Lower California. May 22, 1892. Collected 

 by C. II. Townsend. Catalogued June 15, 1897. 



Skull is an old weatherworn specimen, without teeth and with no lower jaw. 

 On the whole, it is in good condition for such a specimen. The only .'^erious 

 damage to the skull is a large hole in the brain case, superoposteriorly. 



