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THE SEA-LION OF FORSTER. 



PLATE XVIII. 



Leo Marinus, Buff. Otaria Leo Marinus, Forsterii, Lesson. O. 

 Jubata, Des. The Sea- Lion of Forster. 



MR FORSTER is the principal, if not the only, origi- 

 nal authority among naturalists, for this great Lion 

 Seal of the southern hemisphere. He met it when 

 accompanying Captain Cook in his second voyage, 

 and gave an interesting description of it in his nar- 

 rative of that expedition.* Mr Forster, or rather per- 

 haps his father, transmitted about the same time tc 

 Count Buffon a detailed account of this animal 

 together with drawings taken from nature, both of 

 which were used in the supplement of his Histoire 

 Naturelle, where, however, this document is unfor- 

 tunately mixed up with Steller's account just given. 

 We here therefore reject what has been copied from 

 Steller, and give only what appears to have been 

 drawn from Forster's communication. 



Voyage, &e., by G. Forster, 4to, Lond. 1777, *>1. ii. 512 



