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X. Genus LEPTONYCHOTES, Gill. 



SYtt.Leptonyx, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., x, 1836, 582 (preoccupied 



in Ornithology). Type, Leptonyx weddelli. 

 Leptonychotes, GILL, Arrang. Fam. Mam., 1872, 70 (= Leptonyx, Gray). 



16. Leptonychotes weddelli (Gray), Gill 



SYN. Otaria weddelli, LESSON, FcSrussac's Bull, des Sci.Nat., vii, 1826,438. 

 Stenorhynchus weddelli, LESSON, Man. de Mam., 1827, 200. 

 Leptonyx weddelli, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., x, 1836, 582; 

 " Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mam., 2, pi. v (animal), plate vi (skull)." 

 Phoca leopardina, JAMESON, Hamilton's Mar. Amphib., 1839, 183. 

 HAB. Antarctic Seas. "East coast of Patagonia", Gray. 



XL Genus OMMATOPHOCA, Gray. 



SYN. Ommatophoca, GRAY, "Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mam." Type, 0. 

 rossi. 



17. Ommatophoca rossi, Gray. 



SYN. Ommatophoca rossi, GRAY, "Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mam., 3, pi. vii 

 (animal), pi. viii (skull)"; Cat. Seals Brit. Mus., 1850, 31; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 15, pi. xi. 



HAB. "Antarctic Seas," Gray. 



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The Phocidce are found along the seashores of all parts of the 

 temperate and colder portions of the globe, but those of the 

 Southern Hemisphere belong (with one exception) to different 

 genera from those whose habitat is in the Northern Hemisphere, 

 and for the most part to a distinct subfamily not elsewhere rep- 

 resented. All the members of the so-called " subfamily" Steno- 

 rliyncliince are confined to the south-temperate and Antarctic 

 Seas. The Pliocmce, on the other hand by far the most nu- 

 merous division of the family are strictly northern, only two 

 or three of the species reaching the middle-temperate latitudes. 

 Of the Cystophorince, consisting of two genera, one genus (Cys- 

 tophora) is boreal, and the other (Macrorhinus) has one repre- 

 sentative on the coast of Lower California, and another on the 

 islands and shores of the southern part of South America, South 

 Africa, and the Crozet and Desolation Islands in the Indian 

 Ocean. Of the Phocince, one species, the Monk Seal (Monachus 

 albiventer), is found on both shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in 

 the Adriatic and Black Seas, and at the Madeira and Canary 

 Islands, and probably on the neighboring Atlantic coast of 



