SEALS. 45 
g. Teeth, very young. Houtman’s Abrolhos, Australia. From 
Mr. Gould’s Collection. 
h. Stuffed skin of adult. Black, forehead and crown pale yel- 
oo N.W. Australia. Presented by Capt. Sir George Grey, 
.C.B. 
i. Skull of h. Adult, very rugose, very like skull adult of Ota- 
ria Leonina, but the palate is short and much contracted be- 
hind, the teeth more lobed, and with a tubercular ridge below, 
hike the younger skulls. N.W. Australia. Presented by Capt. 
Sir George Grey, K.C.B. 
5. ARCTOCEPHALUS AUSTRALIS. 
The flaps to the hind-toes moderate ; grey, with yellow refiec- 
tions ; head, cheeks, and side of muzzle whitish, beneath fulvous ; 
neck thick ; limbs beneath blackish ; whiskers strong, flat, white. 
Otaria australis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Mam. 9. t. 10-14; 
Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837; Fauna Scand.; Wiegm. 
Arch. vii. 322. 
Inhab. South coast of Australia, ‘‘ King George’s Sound,” Quoy. 
Most probably the same as the former. 
6. ARCTOCEPHALUS HOOKER!I. 
Flaps of the hinder toes elongate, unequal, of the outer toes 
on each side longest: canines moderate: pale yellowish. 
Canines slender, conical: grinders small, conical, smooth, with- 
out any tubercles at the base; the two front smaller; the 3rd 
and 4th with a single lobe m front; the 5th with a lobe in front 
and behind: whiskers round, very thick, black or whitish, smooth, 
not waved, hinder largest: fur brown grey, slightly grisled, pale, 
nearly white beneath; hair short, close-pressed, rather slender, 
flattened, black with whitish tips, the tips becoming larger in the 
underpart of the sides: feet reddish or blackish; front claws 
small, rudimentary; hind claws 5, the 2nd and 3rd largest, the 
4th and the 5th and then the Ist smallest ; toes moderate ; mem- 
brane of the toes elongate, longer than the toes, the outer one 
broadest and largest, the rest nearly equal. 
Arctocephalus Hookeri, Gray, Voy. Erebus & Terror, t.  ; 
Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 33. 
Hair Seal, Weddell, 141? 
Inhab. Falkland Islands and Cape Horn. 
a. Skin, stuffed. Falkland Islands. 
b. Skin, stuffed, with teeth. Falkland Islands. 
ec. Skeleton, full-grown. Falkland Islands. Antarctic Expe- 
dition. Presented by the Admiralty. 
Skull figured Zool. Voy. Erebus & Terror, t. 
