17. OTARIA. 59 



1. Otaria leonina. Southern Sea Bear. 

 Deep brown. 



Sea Lion, Cook, Voi/. ii. 203 ; Forster, Voy. round the World, ii. 512 ; 



Weddell, Voij. 198. 

 Leonine Seal (part.), Penn. Quad. ii. 534. 

 Phoca i ubata, Schreh. Sdugeth. 300. t. 83 ; Forster, Icon. ined. G. 4 ; 



Desc'ript. Anim. 317 ; Pander Sr D' Alton, t. 3. f. 1), t. 2. f. . 

 Otaria j ubata, Besm. Mamm. 248, 380 {E. M. t. 109. f. 3) ; Gran, 



Griffith's A. K. v. 184. 

 Otaria Pernettyi, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 420. 

 Phoca Scout, iiodd. Flench. 172. 

 Le Lion marin, Bnffon, Hist. Kat. Supp. vi. 358. t. 48 & 49 ; Forster, 



Cook's Voy. iv. 54 (from Forster' s MSS.), copied; Pernetty, Voy. ii. 



47. t. 10. 

 Leonine Seal, Shaui, in Zool. i. 270. t. 74 (altered). 

 Otaria Forsteri, Lesson. 



Phoca Ansonina, Blainv. Joiirn. Phys. 1820, 299. 

 Phoque a criuiere, Cuvier, It. A. i. l67. 

 Phoca leonina, Plainv. Ostcog. Phoca, t. 6 (skull) & t. 9 (dentition) ; 



Molina, Sagy. 282-341. 

 Otaria leonina, Peron, Voy. ii. 65. 

 Phoca B)Tonii, Blaini\ in Desm. 3famm. 240. 

 Otaria Cliilensis, 3Iidler, Wieym. Arch. 1841, 334. 

 Mirounga Byronii, Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 181. 

 Sea Lion, Island of Tinian, Byron in Mus. Coll. Surg. 

 Otaria, sp., Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 223. 

 Platyrhvnchus (leoninus), F.Cuv. 31em. Mus. xi. 208. t. 15. f. 2 (adult 



skull) ; 'J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 37. 

 Otaria platyrhynchus, Miiller, Wiegrn. Arch. 1841, vii. 333. 

 Otaria molossina, Lesson, Voy. Coq. 109. t. 3 (young), Jide skidl Mus. 



Paris. 

 Phoca molossina. Lesson, Btdl. Sci. Nat. viii. 96. 

 Lesson's Otary, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. t. 24, from Lesson. 

 PlatjThynchus molossinus. Lesson, Man. 203. 

 PlatyrhjTichus Uranite, Lesson, Man. 204 ? 

 Otaria Guerini, Quoy Sf Gaim. Zool. Uran. 71 ? 

 Sea Lion of Forster, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. 1. 18. 

 Sea Lion of Penietty, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. t. 19, from Edinb. Mus. 

 Sea Bear of the British Museum, Hamilton, Nat. Lib. t. 23 ? 



Inhab. Southern Pacific Ocean. Patagonia. 



a. Skin of adult, stuffed. West coast of S. America. Vera Cruz. 



Presented by Captain Fitzroy, E.N. 

 h. Front of lower jaw of a. "West coast of S. America. Vera Cruz. 



Presented by Captain Fitzroy, R.N. 



c. Skull of half-grown. West coast of S. America. Chili? From 



Mr. Bridges' Collection. 



d. Skull, young. W. coast of S. America, Presented by Sir John 



Richardson, M.D. 



The skull of the Sea Lion brought from Tinian Island by Com- 

 modore Byron in 1769 is now in the Museum of the College of Sur- 

 geons. — See Cat. Ost. Coll. Mus. Coll. Surg. p. 648. no. 3966, where 

 several skulls of this Seal are described by Professor Owen. 



