ALLEN: mammalia: phocid^. 8o 



his report on the Mammalia of the Soidheni Cross Collections, includ- 

 mg its bibliography, distribution, habits, external appearance, and cranial 

 characters, which is admirably supplemented in the same work by Mr. 

 Wilson's summary of recent observations of the animal in life, based on 

 the accounts of the various explorers who have met with it in the pack- 

 ice of the Antarctic. 



Genus LEPTONYCHOTES Gill. 

 Leptonyx Gray, Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., I, Nov., 1837, 582. 



Type, Otaria weddelli Lesson. Preoccupied in ornithology. 

 Leptonychotes Gill, Arrang. Fam. Mamm., 1872, 70. New name for 



Leptonyx Gray, preoccupied.— Allen, N. Amer. Pinn., 1880, 418, 



463, 467.— Turner, Zool. Challenger Exped., pt. Ixviii, 1888, 20'. 



— Barrett-Hamilton, Rep. Southern Cross Coll., 1902, 17. 

 Poecilophoca Flower & Lydekker, Mamm. Liv. and Ext., 1891, 605. New 



name for Leptonyx Gray, preoccupied = Z,^//(?;/;/c//d?/^5 Gill, 1872. 

 This genus was made known by Gray in 1837, on the basis of speci- 

 mens obtained by Captain Fitzroy on the coast of Patagonia, more fully 

 described and figured in 1844, in the "Zoology of the Erebus and Terror," 

 but he unfortunately adopted for it the preoccupied name Leptonyx, 

 replaced by Gill in 1872 by Leptonychotes, and again in 1891 by Pacil 

 ophoca proposed by Flower and Lydekker, apparently in ignorance of 

 Leptonychotes Gill. 



Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson). 



Sea Leopard \Nt<\AeA, Voy. towards the South Pole, 1825, 22, with plate 

 of animal entitled "Sea Leopard of South Orkneys." 



Otaria weddellii Lesson, Ferussac's Bull. Sci. Nat., VII, 1826, 437, 438. 

 Based on the Sea Leopard of Weddell, as above (name spelled 

 Otaria weddelii on p. 438). 



Stenorhyncus weddellii l^tsson, Man. de Mamm., 1827, 200. 



Stenorhynchits weddellii Owen, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XII, 1843, 332. 

 — Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., V, 1866, 6. 



Leptonyx weddellii Gray, Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., I, Nov., 1837 

 582; List Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, 102; Zool. Erebus and Terror,' 

 Mamm., 1844, 7, pi. v, animal, pi. vi, skull. Santa Cruz River, east 

 coast of Patagonia, Capt. Fitzroy. Also of Gray's later papers and 

 works on Seals. — Hatcher, Narrative, 1903, 77. Corriken Aike. 



