10 EDWARD A. WILSON. 



PINNIPEDIA. 



(4 Plates.) 

 LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLI. 



Weddell's Seal, or the False Sea-Leopard. 

 (Plates I.-III.) 



Otaria weddellii, R. P. Lesson, in Fe'russac's Bull. Sci. Nat., vii. (1826), pp. 437-438. 



Leptonychotes iveddelli, Allen, N. Amer. Pinnip. (1880), p. 467 ; Barrett Hamilton, Rep. Mamm. ' Southern 

 Cross ' Coll., 1902, p. 17, ibique citato* ; K. A. Andersson, Wiss. Ergeb. der Scliwed. Sudpolar-Exped., 

 Bd. V. 2 (1905), pp. 3-11 ; Brown, Mossman, and Pirie, Voy. ' Scotia ' (1906), pp. 129, 227, 340 



et alia. 



MATERIAL IN THE 'DISCOVERY' COLLECTION. 



No. 2, $ , juv. skin and skull. About three months old. Jan. 23, 1903. McMurdo Sound. 



No. 3, $ , ad. skin and skull. Moulting. Jan. 1902. Ross Sea. 



No. 4, $ , ad. skin and skull. Ready to moult. Jan. 1902. Ross Sea. 



No. 13, <J, ad. skin and skull. Jan. 1902. (Mounted for B.M. Gallery by Rowland Ward.) 



McMurdo Sound. 



No. 32, 9 , juv. skin. In first week. Nov. 27, 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 33, <J , skin and skull. Jan. 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 34, $ , skin. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 35, <J , ad. skin and skull. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 36, $ , ad. skin and skull. McMurdo Sound. 



No. 38, 9 , ad. skin and skull. Ready to moult. Jan. 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 40, $ , ad. skin and skull. Moulting. Jan. 1903. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 41, ? , ad. skin and skull. Moulting. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 42, $ , juv. skin and skull. Just born. Nov. 5, 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 45, $ , juv. skin and skull. Seventeen days old. Nov. 14, 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 47, ? , ad. skin and skull. Late summer coat. Jan. 1902. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 48, $ , ad. skin and skull. Beginning to moult. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 49, $ , ad. skin and skull. Fresh moulted. Feb. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 50, 9 , ad. skin and skull. Fresh moulted. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 51, skin and skull. In first year. Ready to moult. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 52, $ , skin and skull. In first year. Freshly moulted. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 53, 9 > a d- skin and skull. Moulting. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 54, ad. skin and skull. Moult just begun. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 55, 9 , ad. skin and skull. Moult almost completed. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 56, <J, ad. skin and skull. Moulting. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 60, 9 , ad. skin and skull. Moulting. Jan. 1902. South Victoria Land. 

 No. 62, ,ad. skin and skull. Weathered pelt. Ready to moult. Jan. 1902. South 



Victoria Land. 



No. 70, $ , ad. skin and skull. Jan. 1902. Lady Newnes Bay. 

 No. 71, (J , skin and skull. One year old. Jan. 1902. Lady Newnes Bay. 

 No. 72, 9 , skin and skull. One year old. Jan. 1902. Lady Newnes Bay. 

 No. 73, 9 , skin and skull. One year old. Jan. 1902. Lady Newnes Bay. 

 No. 74, skin and skull. One year old. Jan. 1902. Lady Newnes Bay. 

 No. 77, 9 i skull, with aberrant dentition. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 78, skull, with much-worn caniner, and incisors. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 80, $, skull. McMurdo Sound. 

 No. 81, $, skull. McMurdo Sound. 



* Gill is erroneously cited. F. J. B. 



