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recorded also at Herschel Island, Yukon, and near Tuktuyaktok just east of 

 Mackenzie River delta (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 80, 

 Jan. 24, 1947). Accidental off Florida (Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 30, p. 121, July 27, 1917) . 



Genus MIROUNGA Gray (elephant seals) 



1826. Macrorhinus £,. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, in Dictionnaire 

 des sciences naturelles, . . . , vol. 39, p. 552. (Type, Phoca proboscidea 

 Peron =Phoca leonina Linnaeus. Not of Latreille, 1825.) 



1827. Mirounga Gray, in Griffith, The animal kingdom ... by the Baron 

 Cuvier . . . , vol. 5, p. 179. (Type, Phoca proboscidea Peron.) 



Mirounga angustirostris (Gill) f * 



1866. Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill, Comm. Essex Inst., vol. 5, No. 1, 

 p. 13, Apr. 7, 1866; Proc. Chicago Acad. Sci., vol. 1, p. 33, April 1866. 



1884. Macrorhinus angustirostris True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 

 Circ. 29) , p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1904. [Mirounga] angustirostris Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 95, Zool. 

 Ser., vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 545, Aug. 2, 1904. 



Type Locality. — San Bartolome Bay, Baja California, Mexico. Range. — 

 From Cape San Lazaro, southern Baja California, and Asuncion, San Roque, 

 Natividad, Cedros, San Benito, and Guadalupe Islands (Huey, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 8, No. 2, p. 160, May 11, 1927) north to Point Reyes, Marin County, Calif. 

 (Scammon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, p. 61, April 1869). 

 North sporadically to Queen Charlotte Strait (Cowan and Carl, Canadian Field- 

 Nat., vol. 59, p. 170, September-October 1945) and Kasaan, Prince of Wales 

 Island, Alaska (Willett, Journ. Mamm., vol. 24, No. 4, p. 500, Nov. 20. 1943). 



Order SIRENIA (sea cows) 



Family Trichechidae 

 Genus TRICHECHUS 19 Linnaeus 

 1758. Trichechus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 34. (Type, 



Trichechus manatus Linnaeus.) 



Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus* (manatee) 



1758. [Trichechus] manatus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 34. 



1884. Trichechus manatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — West Indies (see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London for 1911, 

 pt. 1, p. 132, Mar. 22, 1911) . Range. — Bay of Campeche to Rio Atrato, Colombia 

 (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 68-71, Apr. 26, 1920), 

 coast and lower reaches of rivers of northeastern South America, and West Indies 

 (Halt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, vol. 66, p. 538, Sept. 10, 1934) . 



M Reviewed by Hatt, BulL Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 66, pp. 533-566, Sept. 10, 1934. 



