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tioned which are similarly circumstanced. Both 

 were shortly noticed by Peron in his " Voyage ; " 

 but no detailed account, we believe, has hitherto 

 been published. The one is this Ash-coloured 

 Otary (O. Cinerea) referred to in che second vo- 

 lume of his Voyages, page 77, and by Desmarest in 

 his Mammologie, No. 384. Lesson, in the Diet* 

 Classique, states, that we may probably refer to this 

 Otary a beautiful specimen which was sent to the 

 Paris Museum by Quoy and Gaimard, and which 

 was procured on the South- West coast of New Hol- 

 land. We have taken some trouble, which, how- 

 ever, has proved fruitless, to obtain a drawing of 

 this animal. The other is the W T hite -necked Otary, 

 (O. Albicollis,) shortly alluded to by Peron in the 

 same volume of his Work, and by Desmarest, No. 385, 

 and by Lesson. This one, so far as we know, has not 

 been depicted. But necessitated, by want Of space, 

 to take no further notice of these ascertained, though 

 scarcely described species, we must bring our list 

 to a close by supplying a very succinct account of 

 one which yields in value to none, and whose his- 

 tory, we trust, we can somewhat elucidate. We 

 allude to 



