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or any other writer. It may have been a young Sea-Elephant, 

 this being the only Phocid reported from that locality. 



In 1839 Hamilton, in his "Natural History of the Amphibi- 

 ous Carnivora"* (pp. 124-227, 279, 280), recognized fifteen spe- 

 cies (adopting F. Cuvier's genera) of Earless Seals, as follows: 



I. Caloceplialus vitulina; 2. G. discolor (=fo3tida); 3. G. barbata; 

 4. G. bicolor ( = monachus); 5. G. grcenlandica ; 6. G. oceanica ( = 

 grcenlandica) ; 7. G. hispida ( =fcetida) ; 8. G. leporina ( = barbata) ; 

 9. Halichcerus griseus ( = grypus); 10. Stenorhynchus leptonyx; 



II. 8. leopardina ( = weddelli) ; 12. Pelagius monachus; 13. Stem- 

 matopus- cristatus ; 14. 8. mitratus (=. cristata) ; 15. Macrorhinus 

 proboscideus (=leoninus). Of these fourteen species nine only 

 are valid, and only six of these stand under their correct specific 

 names. He also gives a list of four doubtful ones, only the 

 first of which is described. These are the following : 1. Phoca 

 fasciata; 2. P. coxii; 3. P. lupina; 4. P. punctata. 



The same year (1839) Kutorgat gave a detailed account of' 

 Phoca foetida, under the name Phoca communis, characterizing 

 two new varieties, which he called octonotata and undulata. 



Temminck, in 1842, in the " Fauna Japonica " (Mammiferes 

 Marins, pp. 1-4), passed in review the Seals of the North Pacific, 

 discussing especially those indicated by Steller and Pallas. The 

 only species particularly described is Pallas's Phoca largha, 

 which he renamed Phoca nummularis. 



DeKay, in the same year (New York Zoology, part i, 1842, p. 

 53), based the name Phoca concolor upon New York examples 

 of Phoca vitulina, he believing the American animal to be spe- 

 cifically distinct from the European. 



In 1843 Lesson f described a specimen of Gystophora cristata 

 taken on the coast of France, under the name Phoca isldorei. 



In the same year (1843) Owen redescribed Lobodon carcino- 

 phaga under the name Stenorhynchus serridcns. 



In 1844 Gray, in the "Zoology of the Erebus and Terror", 

 described Ommatophoca rossi, a valid new species. 



Schinz, in the same year (1844), in his " Systematische Yer- 

 zeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannters Saugethiere, oder Synop- 

 sis Marnmalium" (i, pp. 429-486), recognized twelve species of 

 mentioned three additional doubtful ones, as follows : 



* Forming vol. viii of the Mammalia of Jardine's " Naturalist's Library". 

 tBull. Soc. Imp. desNat. de Moscou, ann6e 1839, pp. 178-196, pll. xiii-xviii. 

 i Revue Zoolgique, 1843, p. 256 ; Echo dn Monde Savant, 1843, p. 228. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, p. 131. 



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