Mammalia. i y 



LEPTONYCHOTES. 



Leptonsrx, J, E. Gray, Ann. & Miig. Nat. Hist. vol. i. }). 582, 1837, nee 

 Leptonyx, Wni. ISwainson, Zoological Illustrations, ser. 2, vol. iii. pi. 117, 

 1832-00 = Hylaetes (see Catalogue of Birds, vol. xv. p. 311), 1890), nee 

 Leptonyx, Wni. Swainson ia Lardner's Cyelopajdia, vol. xcviii. ; Animals in 

 Menageries, p. 314, 1838 = Coryphospiza (see Catalogue of Birds, vol. xiii. 

 p. 7G5, 1890) Type L. iveddclli 



Leptonyehotes, Gill, Arrangement of the Families of Mammals, p. 70, 1872. 



Poecilophoca, R. Lydekker, in Flower and Lydekker's Study of Mammals 

 p. 605, 1891. 



1. LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLL— Weddell's Seal, or The False 



Sea-Leopard. 



Leopardine Seal, Jameson in Weddell's Voyage towards the South Pole, vol. i. 

 pp. 22, 21, & 131, with a plate (not correet). 



Sea Leopard, or Leopard Seal. Weddell, op. cit. pp. 22 & 13-1. 



Otaria Aveddellii, R. P. Lesson, in Ferussae's Bull. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. pp. 137- 



138, 182G. 



Leptonyx weddelli, J. E, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 582, 1873 ; 

 Voy. H.INI.S. ' Erebus ' and ' Terror; Zool. p. 7, pis. 5 & 6, 1844 ; Cat. Bones of 

 Mammalia, p. 142, 1862; Cat. Seals and Whales, pp. 11 to 13, 1866; Hand.- 

 List of Seals, Morses, Sea-Lions, and Sea-Bears, p. 14, 1874; T. Gill, Prodrome 

 of a Monograph of the Pinnipeds, Comm. Essex institute, p. 6, July 1866. 



Stenorhynchus Aweddellii, R. P. Lesson, Manuel de Mammalogie, p. 200, 1827 ; 

 Sir liichard Owen in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xii. pp. 331-332, 1843. 



Leptonyehotes -weddell (or weddelli), T. Gill, Arrangement of the Families 

 of Mammals, p. 70, November 1872; J. A. Allen, History of North American 

 Pinnipedes, p. 467 (see also pp. 214, 418, 419, 421, 446, 450, 451, 452, 453, 

 463), 1880; Sir Wilii;im Turner, Report on the Seals collected during the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. ' Challenger' in the years 1873-76, pp. 20 to 28 & 65, 1888 ; 

 E. G. Racovitza, La Vie dcs Animaux et des Plantes dans I'Antarctiquc, 

 pp. 30, 52, 1900 ; Cook, First Antarctic Night, p. 264 (1901, i)hotogra[)h) ; 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Antarctic Manual, p. 218 (1901) ; Bernacchi, To the South 

 Polar Regions, pp. 73, 165, 235, 240, 245 (photo.), 274 (1901) ; Albert, Pinip. 

 Chile, p. 10 (1901, Juan Fernandez). 



Weddellii (Lohodon carcinoijJiaga), Borchgrevinck, First on the Antarctic Continent, 



p. 81 (1901, i)hoto.). 

 A Weddellii Seal, id. t. c. p. 109 (photo.). 

 Weddellii, id. t. c. pp. 236, 237 (photo.), 260, 286. 

 Sea Leopard (Stenorynchus leptonyx. Gray), H. N. Moseley, Notes by a 



Naturalist. An account of observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S. 



' Ohallemjer ' found the World in the years 1872-76, &c. London, 1879, 



Type. — The original specimen of the "Leopardine Seal" of 

 Jameson and Otaria vjedddlii of Lesson was presented to the old 

 Museum of Edinburgh University in that city in 1821-22, and is 

 now in the Museum of Science and Art. Dr. E. H. Traquair, 

 Keeper of the Natural History collections, to whom I am indebted 



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