Notes on Antarctic Seals. 71 



obtained by bis expedition, as he also figures the skull of a Lobodon 

 {t.c. p. 103), and calls it " Wcddellii." 



In his account of the ' Southern Cross ' expedition, he mentions the 

 present species as being met with on his winter sledge journey 

 (p. 159), near Coulman Island and near Cape Constance, where about 

 three hundred were seen together (p. 237), as well as in Lady Newnes 

 Bay, on the 4th of February (p. 260), and again in a bay in the ice- 

 barrier (p. 286). He writes : " Towards the south some Seals were 

 basking on the ice. I sent a boat to the end of the bay after them, 

 and found that they were Wcddellii. A party of ski-runners which 

 I despatched to the west came upon a large number of Seals in a lake, 

 or large deep basin, formed in the plateau of the barrier. Although 

 the plateau at that place fell with a gentle slope, it evidently reached 

 the level of the sea, as the Seals shot up through blow-holes in the 

 ice at the water's edge." 



Mr. Bernacchi mentions the species as occurring on one of the 

 Possession Islands (p. 235). He further describes the finding of 

 Weddell's Seal on the ice-barrier : " Eound this Cape [Constance] we 

 found low land, or, I should say, the edge of the great ice-cap at this 

 spot was low. Steaming along the edge of the ice-barrier, we 

 discovered a kind of inlet or ' arm ' running into the glacier for a 

 distance of about three miles, with perfectly smootli ice between, and 

 fastened to the walls of the glacier. This spot was well sheltered 

 from winds, and the great inland ice-cap was easily accessible. A 

 rookery of Seals, some hundreds in number, could be seen lying on 

 the ice at the bottom end of the arm, and two Emperors and one 

 Adelia Penguin were observed. These Seals proved to be Leptony- 

 chotcs weddellii. They were lying alongside a crack in the ice, most 

 of them asleep ; they were totally unconcerned at our presence, and 

 evinced not the slightest interest in us." He also gives (p. 274) an 

 account of the Seal rookery in the ice-barrier. 



2. OGMORHINUS LEPTONYX. Leopard-SeaL 



(Platk III ) 



The Leopard-Seal was nowhere, and at no time, common. Two 

 young ones were captured in the pack-ice on January 3rd. A male 

 was killed at Cape Adare on December 22nd, and another was seen 

 and successfully photographed by Mr. Bernacchi, also at Cape Adare. 



