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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



After Halicyon Richardi (page 30), add :— 



Halicyon? Californica. 



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

 confluent. 



Inhab. California. 



This Seal is thus described by Hutching. 



The Hair Seal (Phoca jubat.i), Hutching, Scenes of Wonder and Curi- 

 osity in California, 189, fig. 



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



" There are several kinds of Seal that pay a short visit to the 

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

 beautiful of which is the Hair Seal of the Pacific (P. jubata). 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 with it" (p. 189). It has no affinity to the Phoca 

 jubata of the Systematic Catalogue. 



Trichecus Rosmarus (p. 36). 



Add to description of Morse : — 



The Morse sits with its hind limbs bent forward, resting on its 

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

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

 ' Voyage.' Buffon, 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, like 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 group, sits in the same manner 

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

 habit seems to form a link between the two groups of Seals. 



Cystophora Antillarum (page 43). 



Seal, HilTs Jaynaica Almanack, 184.3. 



The Pedro Seal (Phoca Wilkianus), Gosse, Nat. Sojmirn in Jamaica, 

 .307, 308. 

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

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

 five-lobed, and conical. Bristles numerous, strong, very flexible, of h 



