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stated of what it consisted, and especially what types it em- 

 braced, and that he has not presented the results of his investi- 

 gations in detail, with more explicit expression of his later 

 views respecting the numerous synonyms of the group, very 

 few of the many nominal species being here definitely allocated. 

 He having here made radical changes of nomenclature, not 

 only from that of his former papers of 1866, but from that of 

 all previous authors, without giving his reasons for such a pro- 

 cedure, such information would have in this connection espe- 

 cial value. Of the restricted genus Otaria he recognizes only 

 the single species 0. jubata. He gives its habitat as extending 

 from the Eio de la Plata and Callao and the Chincha Islands 

 southward. He refers 0. leonina, F. Cuvier ? and 0. ulloce, von 

 Tschudi, to this species as " local races," and leaves it to be 

 inferred that his 0. godeffroyi and Gray's 0. minor and 0. pyg- 

 mcea are regarded by him as purely synonyms. Gray's Pkoc- 

 arctos elongatus, he says, belongs, without doubt, to Eumetopias 

 gillespij and gives Japan as falling within its range. Gray's 

 Zalophus lobatus he refers to Otaria cinerea, Peron, to which lie 

 also assigns 0. albicollis of the same author and 0. australis 

 of Quoy and Gaimard. He adopts Pron's apparently wholly 

 indeterminable name cinerea* for this species, without giving 

 his reasons or stating whether he has obtained new light on 

 this intricate matter since 1866, when he referred it to a group 

 having thick under-fur, and associated with it the Otaria cinerea 

 of Quoy and Gaimard, and the Otaria forsteri of Lesson, both 

 of which he now treats as distinct species belonging to another 

 genus. No reference being made to Turner's Arctoceplialus 

 scJiisthyperoe'S) nor to Gray's A. nivosus and Euotaria com- 

 pressa, nor to the 0. peroni, 0. hauvilli, etc., of the French 

 writers, it is to be inferred that they are regarded as syno- 

 nyms, but of what species we are left in doubt. He adopts 

 ArctocepJialus pusillus (from Schreber) as the name of the South 

 African Fur Seal, on the supposition that Buffon's "Petit 



* It has been supposed by Gray and others that Pe"ron took with him to 

 France no specimens of his Otaria cincrca, but G. Cuvier (Oss. Foss., v, 3d 

 ed., p. 221) refers to a specimen of Otary "vient de Pe"ron (c'est la seule 

 qu'il ait rapporte'e), elle n'a que deux pieds neuf pouces de long, et est un 

 peu plus blanchatre que cello du Cap." He adds in a footnote, "C'est pro- 

 bablement celle dont il parle sous le nom d'otorie cendrte de Tile Decres ; 

 Voy. aux Terres Australes, t. ii, p. 54." The Otary of the Cape here referred 

 to is the one brought by M. Delalande, which is the Fur Seal of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



