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LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS. 



The White Antarctic or Crab-eating Seal. 



PJioca carcinophaga, Jacquinot and Pucheran, Zool. Atlas Voy. Pole Sud., pi. X., XA. (1842-1853). 



Lobodon carcinophagus, J. E. Gray, Zool. Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Vol. I., Mamm. (1844), pp. 5, 6, Pis. I., 

 II. ; Barrett Hamilton, Rep. ' South. Cross' Coll. (1902), p. 35, ibique citato, ; Brown, Mossman, and 

 Pirie, Voy. 'Scotia,' (1906), p. 122. 



Lobodon carcinophaya, K. A. Andersson, Wiss. Ergeb. der Schwed. Sudpolar-Exped. Bd. V. 2 (1905), 



pp. 13-16. 



LIST OF MATERIAL IN THE 'DISCOVERY'S' COLLECTION. 



No. 5, <J , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 6, 9 , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea.' 



No. 8, $ , adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 9, $ , adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 10, 9 , adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 28, 9, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 29, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 30, ? , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 39, 9 , adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 12, <J, ad. skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 67 S. 178 E. 



(Mounted for B. M. Gallery by Rowland Ward.) 

 No. 75, ad. skull. McMurclo Sound. 

 No. 79, $ ad. skull. McMurdo Sound. 



No. 83, ad. skull. One of N. Hanson's, picked up by me at Cape Adare. 

 Also the skeleton of an adult $ . 



MATERIAL IN THE ' MORNING'S ' COLLECTION. 



No. 76, M. 10, <J, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 67 S. 179 E. 



No. 7, M. 20, <J, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 15, M. 8, <J . adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 66 S. 179 AV. 



No. 17 (M. 8) a , 9 , juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 70 S. 175 E. 



No. 57, M.I 2, <J, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 67 S. 179 E. 



No. 59, M. 19, ,J , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 63, M. 7, 9 . adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



No. 61, M.I 1, <J, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 69 3 S. 179 E. 



No. 58, M. 9, $ , adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 66 S. 179 W. 



No. 19 (M. 9) a , 9 , juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ica. Ross Sea. 70 S. 175 E . 



No. 20 (M. 5), $ , juv. skin. December 27, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 68 S. 176 54' E. 



No. 21 (M. 10) a , <J , skin and skull. January 1, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 70 S. 175 E. 



No. 22 (M. 1), ^ , adult skin and skull. January. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 



Also the skeleton of an ad. $ . 



Lobodon has been seen by almost every expedition that has entered the Antarctic 

 pack ice, and in all probability it is to be found all round the Antarctic Circle. Stray 

 examples have been recorded, as with other similar species, from the most unexpected 

 quarters. A specimen, now said to be in the La Plata Museum, was taken near San 

 Sidro, north of Buenos Ayres, in lat. 34 28' S., while other two examples have been 

 taken on the coast of Australia, the one at Melbourne, the other at Portland, Victoria, 

 in 1897 and 1894 respectively (see "Nature," February 5th, 1903, p. 327); these are 



