198 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Gibson, E. 



1899 Field-notes on the Wood-Cat of Argentina {Felis gcoffroyi) (P. Z. S., 1899, pp. 928, 

 929). Also includes measurements of two specimens. 



Gray, J. E. 



1837 Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum 

 Collection (Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist, I, Nov., 1837, pp. 577-587). 



Spp. nov.: Vulpes inagel/aiiica, V. griseiis, p. 578, Straits of Magellan; Liitra cali- 

 fornica, p. 580, "California" (= Patagonia?); Coftcpaius [gen. nov.) humboldtii, p. 581, 

 Straits of Magellan; Marpiitins (gen. nov.), p. 581, Chili; Leptoiiyx (gen. nov.) ived- 

 dellii, p. 582, "South Seas"; Lcpiis longicandatus, p. 586, "Magellan Land" (= 

 South Africa, Waterhouse). 

 1844-1846 Mammalia of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror. 1 844-1 846. 

 Title page not seen. See Gray, J. E., 1875. 



" The Seals of the Southern Hemisphere," pp. 1-8, pll. i-x (resume of the literature, 

 pp. 1,2); " Synopsis of the Species of Seals," pp. 2-5 ; " Description of the Seals of the 

 Southern Hemisphere," pp. 5-8 (incomplete). Lobodon (p. 5) and Ommatophoca (p. 7), 

 gen. nov. 



Figures : Lobodon carcinophaga, pi. i, animal, pi. ii, skull ; Stcnorhnychtis leptonyx, 

 pi. iii, animal, pi. iv, skull ; Loptonyx zveddelHi, pi. v, animal, pi. vi, skull ; Ommatophoca 

 rossii, pi. vii, animal, pi. viii, skull ; Morunga elcphantina, pi. ix, animal (female), pi. x, 

 skull ; Lobodon carcinophaga, pi. xi, skull ; Arctocephaliis hookeri, pi. xiv, animal, pi. 

 XV, skull ; Arctocephaliis lobatits, pi. xvi, animal, pi. xvii, figs. 3-5, skull ; Otaria 

 jiibata, juv., pi. xvii, figs, i, 2, skull. Plates xii and xiii are lacking. Plates i-xii, 

 1 844 ; pll. xiii-xvii of later date. 



In the copy examined the text terminates abruptly in the middle of a sentence at the 

 end of p. 8. It contains, however, plates ix-xvii, completing the series of seal plates, 

 and pll. xviii-xxv of the miscellaneous mammals, pll. i-xxx of the Cetacea, and pll. 

 i*-xxv of the birds, or the complete series of bird plates, except pll. i, vii, xii, xx*, and 

 xxii. 



See the 1875 ed., with complete text and plates. 



" Sir James Ross's expedition obtained specimens of each of the four species [of 

 Antarctic Seals] , and accordingly Gray's work became, and still remains, the standard 

 description of them all. It contains in fact the first written description of the Crab-eat- 

 ing Seal and of Ross's Seal, and the first intelligible description of Weddell's Seal." — 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Report on Southern Cross Collections, 1902, p. 2. 

 1850 Catalogue | of the specimens of | Mammalia] in | the Collection | of the | British Mu- 

 seum.] Part II. ] Seals. ] London: ] Printed by order of the Trustees.] 1850. — l2mo, 

 pp. viii 4- 48, text figs. 1-16. 



A systematic synopsis of the Pinnipedia. 



1849 On a very large Roe-Deer (C leucotis) in the Collection of the Earl of Derby (P. Z, 

 S., 1849, pp. 64, 65, pi. xii). 



Capreolus leucotis, sp. nov. = Hippocamehis bistdcns (Mol.). 



1850 Synopsis of the species of Deer (Cervina), with the description of a new species in the 

 Gardens of the Society (P. Z. S., 1850, pp. 222-242, pi. xxii-xxviii). 



Furcifer antisiensis and F. huamel, p. 236. 



