SPECIES. 197 



He very judiciously refers to Otaria porcina, 0. coronata, 0. 

 delalandi, and 0. hauvillii as species so slightly indicated " as 

 still to remain doubtful." 



Mlsson, in his celebrated paper on the Seals, published in 

 1837, * reduced the species to three, reuniting all the Sea Lions 

 (except one) under the name Otaria jubata, and all the Sea 

 Bears under the name Otaria ursina. His third species is the 

 Otaria australis of Quoy and Gaimard, from Australia (= Arc- 

 tocephalus lobatus, Gray, Spicel. Zool., i, 1828). Miiller, in his 

 appendix to Mlsson's paper, t recognized five species, as repre- 

 sented in the Berlin Museum, namely: 1. Otaria stelleri; 2. 

 Otaria ursina; 3. Otaria platyrhinchus (= 0. jubata, auct.); 4. 

 Otaria chilensis (described as new from a skull received from 

 Chili, but really = 0. jubata); 5. Otaria lamari (= Arctocepha- 

 lus lobatus Gray, as above). He recognized as " eine sechste 

 Art" the Otaria australis, Quoy and Gaimard, and Mlsson. 



The next general review of the group is contained in Gray's 

 Catalogue of the Seals of the British Museum, published in 

 1850, in which eight species are formally recognized. These 

 are : 1. Arctocephalus ursinus ; 2. A. falMandicus ; 3. A. cine- 

 reus (= u f Otaria cinerea, Peron," as noticed above) ; 4. A. loba- 

 tus; 5. A. australis ("Quoy and Gaimard" = A. lobatus, Gray) ; 

 6. A. hooJceri ; 1. Otaria stelleri ; 8. Otaria leonina. All but A. 

 australis probably represent good species. In 1866, in his 

 " Catalogue of Seals and Whales," he raised the number to 

 twelve by adding, 1. Arctocephalus monteriensis (first described 

 by him in 1859 = Eumetopias stelleri, plus a skin referable to 

 Callorhinus ursinus); 2. A. calif ornianus, n. sp. ( = A. monterien- 

 sis, Gray, 1859, in part, really = ^Eumetopias stelleri) ; 3. A. nigres- 

 cens, first named in Zool. Erebus and Terror ; not mentioned 

 in Cat. Seals of 1850, but revived in 1859, when it was really 

 first published (= A. falklandicus) ; 4. A. delalandi (= Petit 

 Phoque, Buffon, hence Phoca pusilla, Schreber, plus Otaria dela- 

 landi, F. Cuvier, 1828, the Fur Seal of the Cape of Good 

 Hope); 5. A. " Gilliespii" (= Otaria gillespi, M'Baiii, 1858, = 

 Otaria californiana, Lesson, 1828). Of these five, two (A. mon- 

 teriensis and A. californianus) are strictly nominal, as is prob- 

 ably a third (A. nigrescens) ; two valid species (A. u delalandi" 



* K Vet. Akad. Haucll. Stockholm, 1837, pp. 235-245. Translated by Peters 

 in Wiegmann's Arcliiv fur Katurgesch., 1841, pp. 301-333, with notes and an 

 appendix by J. Miiller. 



t Wiegmann's Archiv, 1841, pp. 333, 334. 



