ALLEN: mammalia: PHOCIDyE. „, 



is not met with in the ice-pack. It ranges, however verv far .nnth 



La':f TA'IT "■" ^"^' """''"' °" *^ coalt VIo'uth Vi^ a 

 , w V r^ r u P'""' '"°'' commonly met with in Ross's Sea At 

 almost the farthest southern point reached by the SoMe^OossE.^ 



with .h^^::;a\t:ror:;rrre sr"^ ^°"™""'-'^'' -'•'^ '- 



able™'rs br'th?\*',;"'" T"'' '"""' ^^""'"^ '" -'>' -"-der- 

 seals we^e fo ,nH\ f ' ^''"^ Expedition. Some dead young 



seals were found buned m guano at Camp Ridley on Cape Adare b,^ 



B^a^To r :; ZlT' T' f'T" ''"' now/thoughTn Rtrts'o" 



we^; boTn •'^Th ! e oftrb- th :'f"tr" '"''''"'■ '"' "^"^ ^°""^ 

 The soecies w,, w j , , *'= ^"""S 's given as September. 



entiil r , ""'"'''' ^y '''=''^°" '■" '826, his account being based 



Pole ^rn J P !V ''7"°"' ^'''' '" ''" " ^°y'S^ '"-^^dt the South 

 roie (p. 22). Professor Jameson's description is as follows • •■ Leomr 

 dne seal the neck long and tapering; the'head small ;rbody pa": 



. Yet Lesson, believing that it had small ears which had been omitted 



('s rZo"; 1 "t^- "/""' " '° "^' S^"- «''"•"'' but after: 

 (■827) to the genus Sfe,ior/,y„a,s. WeddM brought home an " excellent 



specmen, wh.ch he presented to the Edinburg'h Roya Museum "nd 

 wh,ch was later described in Dr. Robert Hamilton's " Amph.biouT Car 

 n vora Qardme's Naturalist's Library, Vol. VI, ,839, pp tsttSv p' 

 xu). This specmen evidently came fron, the Souilro'rkneys' ( a.Lde 

 of the' animat'Tnd ir'h '^^''*'' ^^^ '- -» billed quite a numbe 

 speciL:™ct'rdmg' ' sJlufZof u\T''' ''''^"'l ^"^ 

 Edinburgh Museum^of Science and Art! ' ' " """ '" **= "^* 

 Gray, m 1837, gave the first intelligible description of the species frnn. 



