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dation before it can be considered as established. Lientenant- 

 colonel H. Smith has figured two ocelots in Griffitli's Cuvier, 

 — No. 3, which came from Mexico, and was preserved in Bul- 

 lock's museum, and No. 4, which he supposes to be a native of 

 the same country, and to be the species figured by Buffon, 

 Supp. 3, IS. The former is named/, Griffithsii, and the latter 

 f. c/iibiguaza in Fischer's synopsis. The felis maculata of 

 Horsfield and Vigors, figured in the Zoological Journal, was 

 brought from Mexico by Captain Lyon. 



Orel. CARNIVORA, cont. Fam. Amphibia. 



Calocephalus vituliniis*, F. Cuv. Otaria jubata, Peron. 



„ foetidus*, Fabr. „ ui'sina, Id. 



„ hispidus*, ScHRoB. „ pusilla, Buff. 13, 53. 



„ gi'benlandicus*, Egede. „ califoniiana, Choris, Voy. 11. 



„ lagui-us, F. Cuv. „ Stelleri, Less. Fisch. Syn. 



„ barbatus*, Fabr. Trichechus rosmarus*, Lin. 

 Stemmatopus cristatiis*, Gmel. 



Few of the amphibious carnivora enumerated above are pecu- 

 liar to America, for thougli the otarice are found only in the 

 Pacific, they range to its Asiatic as well as the American shores ; 

 the others are mostly common to t!;e northern seas of Europe, 

 Asia, and America. As it is only of late years that the seals of 

 Europe have been investigated with any success, there is little 

 probability of the American list being either correct or com- 

 plete*. 



Captain James Ross states that the smaller seals {lifulina 

 foetida and hispida) come into the bays and near to the shores 

 of the arctic seas in winter, living under the ice, in which they 

 preserve breathing-holes ; while the harp and great seals [groen- 

 landica and harhata) keep at a distance from the land among 

 the packed ice and partially open water. Calocephalus laguriis 

 was sent from Newfoundland by De la Pilaye, and it is px'obable 

 that leucoplus (Thiex.), which inhabits Iceland, ranges over to 

 Greenland and Davis's Straits, in which case it belongs also to 

 the American fauna. The leonine seal {stemmatopus cristatiis) 

 descends further southwards on the American coast than else- 

 where, one having been captured near New York. This specimen 

 has been described as a distinct species under the name of mi- 

 trata (Fischer, syti.). Most of the Davis's Straits seals have 

 been enumerated by authors as inhabitants also of the sea of 



* All the calocephali of the above list, except foefuhis and lagurus, are men- 

 tioned by Graah as inhabitants of the east coast of Greenland, as are also stem- 

 matopus cristatiis and trichechus rosmarus. (Vide Exp. to East Coast of Green- 

 land, by Capt. W, A. Graah.) 



