Mmmnalia. 25 



Seal from New Georgia, Home, Phil. Trans., pp. 239-240, pi. 29 (skull figured), 

 lo22. 



"Phoque nomnie Leptonjrx," P. Cuvier, Dents des Mamniiferes, pp. 118 and 119, 

 pi. 38a, 1825. 



Stenorhinchus leptonyx, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxxix. p. 549, 182G, 

 Stenorhynehus leptonyx, Lesson, Manuel de Mammalogie, p. 199, 1827; 

 S. Nilsson, Syst. Eintli. der Phoken (translation by W. Peters), Arch, fiir 

 Naturg., ])p. 307, 1841; Owen in Ann. and Mag. Nnt. Hist. vol. xii. i)p. 331, 

 332, 1843 ; Catalogue of the Osteological Series, Mus. College of Surgeons, 

 vol. ii. pp. 642-643, 1833 ; J. E. Gray,'"Zool. Voy. ' Erehus' and ' Terror ; p. 6, 

 pis. 3 and 4, 1844; Cat. Hones of Mammalia, p. 141, 1862; Cat. Seals and 

 Whales, Brit. Miis., pp. 16, 17, 1866 ; Hand-List of Seals, etc., Brit. Mus., 

 p. 11, 1874; Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mam., ii. 302; Jacq. and Pucher., Voy. Pole 

 Sud, Zooloiiie iii. Mammifferes et Oiseaux, p. 27, 1853 ; good figures of animal 

 and skull, pi. 9' of Atlas, 1844; Gill, Prodi'ome Monogr. Pinnipcdes, Com- 

 munications Essex Institute, vol. v. July 1866, p. 6; Moseley, Naturahst on 

 the ' Chalhnfjer; p. 200 (1879) ; Flower and Garsoii, Cat. Osteology of Verte- 

 brated Animals Mus. College of Surgeons, Pt. ii. pp. 211-213,1884; Bruce, 

 Proc. Phys. Soc. Ediu., vol. xii., 1892-1894, p. 380, 1894; Report Sixty-third 

 Meeting of the British Assoc, Nottingham, September, 1893, |>. 807 (1894) ; 

 Borchgrevinck, First on the Antarctic Continent, pp. 170, 230 (photo.) (1901) ; 

 Bernacchi, To the South Polar Regions, p. 235 (1901). 



Stenorhineus leptonyx, the Small-nailed Seal, Hamilton Smith in Jardine's 

 Naturalist's Library, vol. xv. p. 258, 1845-1846. 



Ogmorhinus leptonyx, Peters, Monatsb. K. Akad., Berlin, 1875, p. 393 ; Allen, 

 Hist. N. Amcr. Pinnii)eds, i\ 466 (see also pp. 440, 441, 445, 446, 450 and 

 457), 1880; 'J'urner, Rei)ort on the Seals collected during the Voyage of 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger; p. 64, 1888 ; Trouessart, Catalogue Mammallium I., 

 p. 380, 1897 ; Cook, First Antarctic Night, pp. 257, 280 (1891, photos.) ; 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Antarctic Manual, p. 209 (1901). 



Phoea homei, W. P. Lesson, Diet. Class, N. H. xiii. p. 417 (Jan. 1828). 



Ogmorhynus leptonyx, Racovitza, La vie des Animaux et des Plantes dans 

 I'Antarctique, p. 33, 1900. 



Sea Leopard, Borchgrevink, First on the Antarctic Continent, \\ 237 (1901 : 

 Bernacchi, To the South Polar Regions, p. 235 (1901). 



Ty2)es. — The two skulls examined by De Blainville are stated to 

 be, one in the museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, 

 London, and the other in the Paris Museum. The former is 

 probably that now numbered 1091 (vide infra). As to the latter 

 I have written to the authorities of the Paris Museum, but have 

 received no reply to my communication. 



Synonymy. — The original generic name of this Seal has appeared 

 under several different forms, viz., Stenorhinchus (Cuvier), Steno- 

 rhij7ichus (Lesson), Stenorhineus (Hamilton Smith) and Stenorynchus 

 (Moseley). Each of these antedates Peters' Ogmorhinus — a matter 

 of importance to those naturalists who regard a name when once 

 published as not subject to alteration. For them Stenorhinehus of 



^ For date of this plate see p. 35 (imder Lobodo7i). 



