EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 233 



Otaria (Evmefopw*) tellcn, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 274,671. 



Eumetopias steUeri, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser.,xviii, 1868,233; 

 Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales in Brit. Mus., 1871, 30*; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1872, 737 (in part), figs. 4, 5 (the young skull on which 

 Arctocephalus montcriensis, Gray, was in part based); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1873, 77G (its occurrence in Japan stated to be doubtful) ; 

 Hand-List of Seals, etc., 1874, 40. ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 

 1870, 46, pll. i, iii, figg. 9-15, and tigg. 1-5 in text. SCAMMOX, Marine 

 Mam., 1874, 124, four woodcuts of animal pp. 126, 127. ELLIOTT, 

 Report on the Prybilov or Seal Islands of Alaska, 1873 (text not 

 paged, live plates) ; Condition of Aifairs in Alaska, 1875, 152 ; Scrib- 

 ner's Monthly, xvi, Oct., 1878, 879 (popular account, with figures). 



Stemmatopias stelleri, VAX BEXEDEX, Ann. du Mus. Roy. d'Hist. Nat. du Bel- 

 gique, pt. i, 1877, 15 (in text), lapsus pennas for Eumctopias stelleri ? 



Phoca leonina, PALLAS, Zoog. Rosso- Asiat., i, 1831, 104 (=F.jubata, Gmeliu). 



Arctoceplialm monteriensis, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 358, 360, pi. 

 Ixxii, skull (in part only ; the skin referable to Callorhiuus ursinus) ; 

 Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 49. 



ArctocepJialus calif ornianus, GRAY, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 51 (= A. monte- 

 riensis, Gray, 1859, in part ; not = Otaria californiana, Lesson). 



JZumetopias californianus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 13 (= Arctoceplialm 

 monteriensis, GRAY, 1859, " and possibly also [identical] with Otaria 

 stelleri, Miiller"; hence not = 0. californiana, Lesson). 



f Eume topias clongatus, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 776, figs. 1, 2 

 (= E. stelleri, Gray, ib., 1872, 737, figs. 1-3, Japan ? ). 



f Phocarctos clongatus, GRAY, Hand-List Seals, etc., 1874, 30, pi. xxi, xxii. 



Meerlowen, STELLER, Beschreib. von sonderbarer Meerthiere, 1753, 152. 



Le Lion marin, BUFFOX, Hist. Nat., Suppl., vi, 1782, 337 (in part only). 



Leonine Seal, PENNANT, Arctic Zool., i, , 200 (in part only). 



Lion Marin, CHORIS, Voyage Pittoresque, lies Aleoutieime, 1822, 12 (not 

 = Lion marin cle la Calif ornie, pi. xi, "Port San-Francisco et ses 

 Habitants"). 



Leo marimis, the Sea King, ELLIOTT, Scribuer's Monthly, xvi, 879, Oct., 1878. 



"See-Vitchie," Russian; Lion marin, French; Seelowe, German; Sea Lion, 

 Hair Seal, English. 



HABITAT. Shores of the North Pacific, from BehriDg's 

 Straits southward to California and Japan. 



EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. Length of full-grown male eleven 

 to twelve and a half or thirteen feet, of which the tail forms 

 three or four inches ; girth about eight to ten feet ; weight vari- 

 ously estimated at from one thousand to twelve hundred or 

 thirteen hundred pounds.* The weight of the full-grown female 



* A skull of this species in the National Museum (No. 4702), collected at 

 Fort Point, Bay of San Francisco, July, 1854, bears a label with the follow- 

 ing legend : "Length 13 ft. 8 in. ; weight, by estimate, one ton." 



Captain Bryant, in some MSS. notes on this species recently received, 

 states that the full-grown male measures 13^- to 14 feet from the tip of the 

 nose to the end of the outstretched hind-feet, and from 7| to 9 feet in girth 



