34 HAND-LIST OF SEALS, MORSES, 



1859 I figured the adult skull (t. Ixix.), under the name of Ardore- 

 phalus Delalandii. Le petit Phoqiie figured by BufFon, said to come 

 from India, is probably the young of this species ; and this account 

 of the animal has given rise to Phoca parva, Phoca pusilla, and 

 Phoca Peronii. 



6. EUOTAKIA. 



Arctoceplialus, sp., Gray, Siqjj)!. Cut. Seals ^- Whalen, p, 17. 



Skull depressed, broad behind. The sixth upper grinder quite 

 behind the hinder edge of the front of the zygomatic arch. The 

 grinders of the upper and lower jaw compressed, with an elongate 

 triangular central crown, with a collaret on the inner side, and with 

 a small lobe on the back and often on the front edge. The fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth upper grinders with two diverging roots. 



The adult skulls of the Euotaiiai in the British Museum, as di- 

 stinguished from the larger species from the Cape, are of about the 

 same state of development, and they are probably nearly all of the 

 same sex. They aU have the palates well formed and the occipital 

 and frontal ridges well developed ; but the bones are not very com- 

 pletely united, and the teeth are in nearly the same state of deve- 

 lopment. 



The six cutting-teeth in Euotaria nigrescens, Falkland Islands, 

 and E. ctnerea, New Zealand, occupy the same space, and are much 

 of the same size, 1 inch wide. In Euotaria laiirostris (1013c?) the 

 cutting- teeth occupy a larger space, 1|- inch, the chief difference being 

 in the separation of the four middle cutting-teeth. There are 

 several other differences in these skulls. 



* Skull broad. Palate of the adult skull suddenly contracf-ed behind the last 

 grituier. Opening of the internal nostril narrow. 



1. Euotaria cinerea. 



Grinders short and thick ; crown short. 



Sea-bear, Cook^s Second Voyage. 



Phoca ursina, John R. Forster, Descriptio Animalium, p. 64. 



Ours marin, JBuffon, Hist. Kaf. Suppl. vi. p. 3.30, t. 47. 



Otaria cinerea, Feron, Voy. Terr. Austr. ii. pp. 54 ?, 77 ; Desmarest, 

 Mamm. p. 251 ; Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de t Astrolabe, Mamm. p. 89, 

 t. 12, 13, & 15 ; Peters, Motiatsb. May 17, 1860, p. 272. 



Phoca cinerea, Fischer, Synopsis, p. 233. 



Otarie (Om-s du M. Gaimard), Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. p. 222. 



Otaria Lamairii, J.Midler, Wiegm. Arch. 1841, p. 334. 



O. ursina, Nilsson, 3Ionogr. p. .332. 



O. Forsteri, Lesson, in Diet. Class, xiii. p. 421. 



Phoca Forsteri, Fischer, Syno2}sis, p. 232. 



Arctoceplialus Forsteri, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals S,- JVJiales, p. 25. 



Otaria (Arctocephalus) cinereus, Peters, Monatsh. 186H, pp. 272. 

 071. 



Arctocephalu? cinereu?, Allen. Hull. yius. Conip. Ana/, ii. p. 45? 



