196 FAMILY OTARIID.E. 



Stel]er=Callorhinus ursinus); 5. Otaria pernettyi( = Otaria juba- 

 ta) ; 6. Otaria forsteri (embraces all the Fur Seals of tlie Southern 

 Hemisphere) ; 7. Otaria mollissina (" Lesson et Garnot, Zoologie 

 de la Coquille, pi. iii, p. 140 " ; habitat, " lies Malouines " ; the long 

 description contains nothing in itself distinctive of any species^ 

 but it has been determined, by Nilsson and Gray, from the skull 

 and skin in the Paris Museum, to be a young Otaria jubata) ; 8. 

 Otaria peroni (= u Otaria peroni, Desm., sp. 382 "; embraces 

 " Phoca pusilla Linn.", "Petit Phoque, Buffon," "Otarie de La- 

 lande, F. Cuvier," and " Loup inarm, Pages"; habitat, Cape 

 of Good Hope ; formerly referred by Gray to his Arctocephalus 

 delalandi, to which it is mainly referable) ;' 9. Otaria coronata 

 ("Desm., spec. 383 ; Phoca coronata, Blainv. 7 'j undeterminable, 

 and habitat unknown) ; 10. Otaria cinerea ("P6ron et Lesueur," 

 as above); 11. Otaria albicollis ("Peron et Lesueur," as above); 

 12. Otaria flavescens (= " Phoca flavescens, Shaw," as above; not 

 determinable) ; 13. Otaria shawi (= Phoca falklandicus, Shaw, 

 therefore = Arctocephalus falklandicus, auct.) ; 14. Otaria hau- 

 villii ( U G. Cuvier, Oss. Foss., t. v, p. 220"; = Arctocephalus falk- 

 landicm, auct.; habitat, "lies Malouines"); 15. "Otaria moli- 

 naii" ( = u Phoca porcina, Molina"; no tangible description, and 

 wholly undeterminable). 



Fischer, in 1829-30,* appears to have recognized fifteen (only 

 twelve have numerals prefixed) species of Eared Seals, which 

 are the same as those described by Lesson in 1828, with the ex- 

 ception that Lesson's Otaria fabricii is not admitted, and Gray's 

 Arctocephalus lobatus is added. 



Hamilton, in 1839,t recognized twelve species, as follows : 1. 

 " Sea-Lion of Steller" (= Eumetopias stelleri) ; 2. " Sea-Lion of 

 Forster" (= Otaria jubata) ; 3. " Sea-Lion of Pernetty" (= Ota- 

 ria jubata, mainly); 4. "Pusilla, or Cape Otary" ("Otaria 

 pusilla, Desm.," but really based on a skull from the Cape of 

 Good Hope); 5. "Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Steller (= Cal- 

 lorhinus ursinus) ; 6. " Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Forster " 

 (= Arctocephalus falklandicus, auct.); 7. " Sea Bear, from speci- 

 men in the British Museum" (=? Otaria jubata, according to 

 Gray); 8. " Lesson's Otary, 0. mollissina, Lesson" (=Arctocepha- 

 lus falklandicus) -, 9. and 10. "Ash-coloured and white-necked 

 Otaries" (= Otaria cinerea and 0. albicollis, Peron) ; 12. " Com- 

 mon Fur-Seal of Commerce" ( = Arctocephalus falJdandicus). 



* Synopsis Mammalium, pp. 230-234, 374 (i. e. 574). 



t Amphibious Camivora, etc. (Jardine's Nat. Library, Mam., vol. viii). 



