308 MAMMALIA. 



Distribution. — The North Atlantic and Pacific coasts, from 

 Japan to Southern California and from New Jersey round to Spain. 



a. Skull $ Greenland Copenhagen Mus. 1839, A.S.B. 



Phoca groenlandica. 



Phocagrcenlandica, FairzVzMS in Muller's Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. viii (1776)*. 

 Phoca oceanica, Lepechin Act. Acad. Petrop., \, pt. i, p. 259 (1778). 

 Phoca albicauda, Desmarest Mamm- Suppl., p. 54' (1822). 

 Callocephalus groenlandicus, F. Cuvier Mem. Mus. Paris, xi, p. 186 (1824) ; 



Blyth Cat. no. 230, p. 78. 

 Phoca legura, G. Cuvier Oss. foss., 3rd ed., v, p. 238 (1825)*. 

 Phoca dorsata, Pallas Zoogr. Rosso. As., i, p. 112 (1831). 

 Pagophilus groenlandicus, Gray Cat. Mamm. B. M., i, p. 25 (1850). 



Distribution. — North Atlantic and Pacific, Newfoundland to 

 Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla and the Arctic 

 coast of Europe; also Northern Pacific, Kamschatka and Sitka. 



a. Skull <? Greenland Copenhagen Mus., A.S.B. 



b. Skull $ Greenland Copenhagen Mus., A.S.B. 



Phoca barbata. 



Phoca barbata, Pabricius in Muller's Zool. Dan, Prodr., p. viii (1776)*, \ 

 Blyth Cat. no. 231, p. 78. ' 



Phoca leporina, Lepechin Act. Acad. Petrop., i, pt. i, p. 264 (1778). 

 Callocephalus barbatus, F. Cuvier Mem. Mus. Paris, xi, p. 189 (1824). 

 Phoca albigena, Pallas Zoogr. Rosso As., i, p. 109 (1831). 

 Phoca nautica, Pallas Zoogr. Rosso As., i, p. 108 (1831). 

 Erignathus barbatus, Gill Proc. Essex Inst., v, p. 12 (1866). 



Distribution. — Circura-polar but northerly in its range, southern 

 limits, Labrador and Scandinavia on the Atlantic, Amur River and 

 Sitka on the Pacific side. 



a. Skull $ Greenland Copenhagen Mus., 1839, 



A.S.B. 



Genus STENORHYNCHUS. 



Stenorhynchus, F. Cuvier Mem. Mus. Paris, xi, p. 190 (1824). 



Stenorhynchus carcinophagus. 



Phoca carcinophaga, Hombron and Jacquinot in Dumont d'Urville, Voy 



au Pole Sud, Atlas, Mamm., pis. x. and x a (1842. 

 Stenorhynchus serridens, Owen Ann. Mag. N. H., xi'i p. 331 (1843). 

 Lobodon carcinophaga, Gray Zool. Ereb. and Terr., p. 5 (1844). 



