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tionably, as is his description of the skull, referable to the southern sea 

 lion. The history of the specimen is not given, and the figure has no 

 special value. 



In 1840 Blainville figured the skeleton, and also the skull and denti- 

 tion^ of a very old male, four views, one third natural size, being given 

 of the skull. The skeleton, it is stated, came from the coast of Chili, as 

 did also the skull, the latter having been obtained by Dr. Neboux on the 

 cruise of the Vetiiis. 



In 1844, in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terroi'^ Gray gave two 

 views, profile and from below, of the skull of a young specimen. This is 

 presumably the same skull figured by him ten years later in his "Cata- 

 logue of Seals in the British Museum" (p. 46), apparently from the "west 

 coast of South America" {cf. I. c, p. 48), under the name Otaria leoiiina, 

 and again republished in his "Catalogue of Seals and Whales" (1866, p. 



58). 



In 1866 Peters gave three views of the skull of Otaria godeffroyt^ and 

 also three of a skull of Otaria ullo<2 Tschudi,* both of which species he 

 later referred to O.jiibata auct. 



In 1 872-1 874 Dr. Murie, in his well-known memoir (/. c.) on the "Anat- 

 omy of the Sea Lion [Otaria jiibata),'^ published an admirable series of illus- 

 trations of not only the skull but of the general anatomy, including the soft 

 parts as well as the skeleton. Two wood cuts in the text^ (VIII, p. 506) 

 give comparative views of the palatal surface of the skull of the male and 

 female, and plates Ixxv and Ixxvi a series of figures of the skull of a 

 young male, including sectional views. Plate Ixxvii illustrates the skele- 

 ton and numerous separate bones, and a series of skulls of different ages, 

 from a fortnight old to old adults, in profile and from above, showing 

 " progressive growth." Five additional plates ® are devoted to the myology, 

 and five others'' to the brain, sensory, vascular, digestive, urinary, and 

 genital organs. 



In 1883, Burmeister, in the Atlas (livr. 2, pi. viii, 17 figures) to his 



^ Osteographie, Les Phoques, pll. iii, vi and ix. 



'Mamm., pi. xvii, figs, i and 2. 



'Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, May, 1866, pi. i. 



^Ibid., Nov., 1866, pi. i. 



'First published in Proc. Z06I. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 103. 



'Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., VII, pll. Ixix-lxxiii. 



'' Op. cit., VIII, pll. Ixxviii-lxxxii. 



