430 FAMILY 



however, really covered several distinct species), as follows : 1. 

 Le grand Phoque a museau ride (=Macrorhinus leoninus); 2. 

 Le Phoque a ventre blanc (=priniarily Monachus albiventer, 

 with an original description and a good figure, from a specimen 

 taken October 28, 1777, in the Adriatic Sea, but to which he er- 

 roneously referred Parsons's Long-bodied Seal, he giving a trans- 

 lation of Parsons's description and a /copy of his figure, and also 

 the TJtsuk of Cranz, and a large Seal mentioned by Charlevoix 

 as found on "les cotes de 1'Acadie 7 '); 3. Le Phoque a capu- 

 chon ( = Cystophora cristata) $ 4. Le Phoque a croissant (= Phoca 

 grcenlandica, at least mainly) ; 5. Le Phoque IsTeit-soak (Phoca 

 fcetida); 6. Le Phoque Laktak de Kamtschatka (=Erignatlms 

 barbatus) ; 7. Le Phoque Gassigiak (= the Seal "appelee Tcas- 

 sigidk par les Groenlandois" ; consequently Phoca vitulina) ; "8. 

 Le Phoque comniun ( = primarily Phoca vitulina, but with allu- 

 sions to other species). Of these eight species two are composite, 

 and one is purely nominal.* 



In the same year (1782) also appeared Molina's work on the 

 natural "history of Chili, t in which, under the head of Phoca, are 

 described four species, all claimed by the author to be new. 

 These are: 1. "L'Urique, Phoca lupina" (a Fur-Seal, or at least 

 an Otary); 2. "II Porco marina, Phoca porcina" (probably the 

 young of the next) 5 3. "II Lame, Phoca elcphantina" (= Phoca 

 leonina, Linne", 1758 and 1766) j 4. " II Leon inarin, Phoca leo- 

 nina," (^Otaria jubata, auct.). 



In 1784 Boddaert appears to have added (I have not the workf 

 at hand) four synonyms, as follows: 1. Phoca albiventer (=P. 

 monachus, Herm.) ; 2. Phoca scmilunaris ( =P. grcenlandica) j 3. 



*TMs enumeration, however, is a great improvement upon that given by 

 the same author in 1765, in the thirteenth volume of his " Histoire naturelle", 

 where all the Seals then known are referred to four species. " . . . . le 

 premier (pi. xlv) est le phoque de notre oce"an, dont il y a plusieurs varie"- 

 ts " ; called also ' ' le Veau marin ou Phoque de nos mers ". The second, sup- 

 posed to he "le phoca des anciens", and which is figured in pi. liii, is a young 

 Eared Seal, the PTioca pusilla of later writers, of which he says, "on nous a 

 assure" que Findividu que nous vu venoit des Indes", etc. Later it is 

 called "le petit phoque noir des Indes & du Levant". (See further, antea, 

 p. 194. ) The third is the Seal described by Parsons in 1743 the Long-bodied 

 Seal of this and many subsequent authors here called "le grand phoque 

 des mers du Nord". The fourth is Anson's "Sea Lion", but which here 

 covers also "les grands phoques des mers du Canada, dont parle Denis, sous 

 le nom de loups marins", to which he is also inclined to refer the larger Seal 

 described by Parsons ! 



tSaggio Sulla Storia Naturale del Chili, pp. 275-290, 341. 



t Elenchus Animalium, vol. i, 1784, pp. 170, 171. 



