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Type locality — Guadalupe Island, off Lower California, 

 Mexico. 



Synonyms — Callorhinus ursimis, part ; Northern Fur Seal, 

 part. 



Range — With little doubt fur seals formerly bred along the 

 coast and among the islands of southern California (Scammon, 

 Marine Mammals, 1874, p. 154; Stephens, Calif. Mammals, 

 1906, p. 206). The geographical probabilities strongly favor 

 their identity with the southern form possibly still in existence 

 ofif Lower California, rather than with the fur seal breeding 

 on the Pribilof Islands, in Bering Sea. 



Family PHOCIDAE 



Phoca richardi geronimensis Allen 



California Harbor Seal 



Original description — Phoca richardi geronimensis Allen, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 16, December 12, 1902, pp. 493, 

 495, 496. 



Type locality — San Geronimo Island, Lower California. 



Synonyms — Phoca pealei; Phoca richardi; Phoca vitulina; 

 San Geronimo Harbor Seal. 



Range — Seacoast, islands, and bays, from the Mexican to 

 the Oregon lines. It is probable that the harbor seals of the 

 northern coast district will be found to be in characters nearest 

 Phoca richardi richardi. 



Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill 



Northern Elephant Seal 



Original description — "Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill, 

 Proc. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1, 1866, p. Zi." 



Type locality — -"Saint Bartholomew's Bay, Lower Califor- 

 nia, Mexico." 



Synonyms — Mirounga angustirostris; Sea Elephant. 



Range — Formerly north along the seacoast as far as Point 

 Reyes, Marin County (Scammon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1869, p. 61) ; occurred in numbers at Santa Barbara Island as 

 late as 1852 (Scammon, Marine Mammals, 1874, p. 118); 



