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In 1782 a fairly good representation was published by Buffon^ from a 

 drawing made by Forster, also at the Falkland Islands. The species was 

 again illustrated by Lesson and Garnot in 1826,2 who gave a colored figure 

 of a young animal from the Falkland Islands, under the name Otaria 

 tnolossina. This figure was copied by Hamilton in his " Carnivorous Am- 

 phibia." Hamilton gave also in 1839 a poor figure of what he called "The 

 Sea-Lion of Pernetty,"^ based on a specimen in the Royal Museum of 

 Edinburgh, which, he says, "was brought from the antarctic regions some 

 years ago." 



Tschudi in 1844-46,^ gave a figure of his Otaria iclloa, from a young 

 example about four feet long, from the coast of Peru. 



The next figure appears to have been published by Sclater,^ an excel- 

 lent representation of a young male in the Garden of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London, "captured on the sea shore near Cape Horn." Other 

 figures from life of the same specimen, according to Gray and Murie, were 

 published in "Land and Water," "The Illustrated London News," and 

 " The Boys' Own Magazine " (VI, No. 33, p. 214). The cut from " Land 

 and Water " was republished by Dr. Murie in his memoir on the Anatomy 

 of Otaria jiibata,^ and duly acknowledged. He also gave other text cuts 

 illustrating (fig. 2, /. c, p. 539) its manner of swallowing food ; a group 

 (fig. 3, /. c, p. 556) of Sea Lions in a variety of positions on land and in the 

 water, from drawings made from the living animal in the Zoological So- 

 ciety's Gardens ; and also additional attitudes (fig. 4, /. c, p. 575) assumed, 

 drawn from life. In the plates accompanying Dr. Murie's admirable 

 memoir are given figures of the fore and hind flippers, and of the hinder 

 portion of the body, showing the external genital organs, the ear, eye, 

 muzzle and throat, and the skin ridges on the breast (/. r., VII, pll. Ixvii! 

 Ixviii and Ixix). Beddard, in his memoir " On the Structure of Hooker's 

 Sea Lion" {Arctocephalns hookeri),' gave a side view of the head, and a 

 front view of the muzzle of Otaria ''jiibata;' in comparison with views of 

 similar parts in Arctocephalns antarcticus and Zaloplins californianus. 

 These figures are of special interest as showing the short ears and the 



' Hist. Nat, Suppl., VI, 1782, pi. xlviii. ^\foy. Coquille, Zool., I, 1826, pi. iii. 



^^Amphib. Cam., 1839, pi. xix. ^ Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, pi.' vi. 



° Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 8, woodcut, under the name Otaria hookcri, by error. 

 "Trans. Z06I. Soc. Lond., VII, part xvi, Jan., 1872, pp. 527-596, pll. Ixvii-lxxiii ; iUd., VIII, 

 part xvi. June, 1S74, pp. 501-582, pll. Ixxv-lxxxii. 



'Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., XII, pt. x, 1890, pp. 370-374, figs. 2 and 5. 



