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ous at the Falkland Islands and in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago. 

 It does not appear to have been reported from the South Shetland and South 

 Georgian Islands, nor from any point more remote from the South Ameri- 

 can coast than the Juan Fernandez and Falkland Islands. In the report 

 on the Sotdhern Cross Collections (1902), it is not mentioned as hav- 

 ing been met with by the naturalists of this expedition during their long 

 cruise in Antarctic waters. 



Respecting their recent occurrence on the eastern coast of Patagonia 

 Mr. Barnum Brown (MSS. notes) sayS : "Two herds of sea lions were 

 found on the coast of Patagonia at a point about twenty miles south of 

 the mouth of the Santa Cruz River, where they have bred and been noted 

 since the earliest settlements along the southern coast. They occupy two 

 distinct rookeries, although not more than half a mile apart ; the herd 

 furthest north, numbering less than 200 head, lives in tide-worn crevices 

 and caverns, from which they slide into the sea with great noise when 

 disturbed. The southern and largest herd has over 300 head, which lives, 

 when ashore, on the open shingle beach under the cliffs. Others were 

 seen off Cape Hall, but they were not in rookeries." 



Nomenclature and Technical History. — The early voyagers to 

 high southern latitudes met with Sea Lions, Sea Bears, and Sea Wolves 

 at various points on or near the coast of southern South America and 

 described them in narrations of their voyages, usually in vague terms, but 

 sometimes with sufficient detail to render them recognizable, when the 

 locality is considered, in the light of our present knowledge of the subject. 

 The technical histoiy of the present species may be said to have begun 

 with Pernetty,! whose Lion marin, though poorly described and badly 

 figured, observed by him at the Falkland Islands in 1764, is identifiable 

 as this animal, although his account of it is more or less confused with 

 that of the Sea Lion of Anson. Pernetty's Lion marin became, in 1776, in 

 part the basis of Schreber's PJioca jttbata (/. c), who quotes Pernetty as 

 authority for his statement that the .male has long curly hair ("langen 

 krausen Haare") on the nape and neck, like the male lion, and a length 

 of 25 feet and a girth of 19 to 20 feet,- and for its occurrence at the Falk- 



* Voyage aux lies Malouines, 1769, p. 447, pi. viii, fig. i. 



^ It is hard to say whether Pernetty meant this statement to apply to his Lion marin or to Lord 

 Anson's Sea-lion, which Pernetty insists was injudiciously applied to what he calls Loup-marin, 

 his statements are so confused. 



