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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



After Halicyon Richardi (pcigc 30), add : — 



Halicyon? Californica. 



A Seal without ears, with large, pale riugs, which are more or less 

 confluent. 



Inhab. California. 



This Seal is thus described by Hutching. 



The Hair Seal (Phoca jubata), Hutching, Scenes of Wotuler and Curi- 

 osity in California, 189, fig. 



" Inhab. California, near St. Francisco. Tarallone Islands. 



" There are several kinds of Seal that pay a short ^-isit to the 

 Tarallone Islands at different seasons of the year, one of the most 

 beautiful of which is the Hair Seal of the Pacific (P. jvhata). This 

 Seal, with which the coast of California abounds, is by no means 

 rare, as almost all the coasts in high southern and northern lati- 

 tudes abound Avith it" (p. 189). It has no affinity to the Phoca 

 jvhata of the Systematic Catalogue. 



Trichecus Rosmarus (p. 36). 

 Add to description of Morse : — 



The Morse sits with its hind Hmbs bent foi-ward, resting on its 

 fore Hmbs with their ends bent outwards. The animal is repre- 

 sented in the proper attitude in old Danish plates, and in Cook's 

 ' Voyage.' Buflf'on, misled probably by some animal-preserver, repre- 

 sents the body much elongated, and with the hind legs extended 

 backward on the sides of the tail, hke the general run of earless Seals. 

 (See Hist. Nat. xiii. t. 54.) The Morse, which is an earless Seal, in 

 this respect differs from the rest of the groiip, sits in the same manner 

 as the eared Seals of the family Arctocepludina (p. 44), and in this 

 habit seems to form a link between the two grouj^s of Seals. 



Cystophora AntiUarum (page 43). 



Seal, IlilVs Jaynaica Almanack, 1843. 



The Pedro Seal (Phoca Wilkianus), Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaicaf 

 307, 308. 



Inhab. Jamaica. Pedro Kays (WiJlcie, 1846), 



" Cutting-teeth j, canines j-f^, grinders ^-^=32. The molars are 



five-lobed, and conical. Bristles numerous, strong, very tlexible, of a 



