SEALS. 41 



Brookes's Museum, which I described as Arctocephalus lobatus, 

 are called 0. Stelleri : some are said to come from Japan and 

 others from New Holland, 



In King (Narrat. Austral ii. 414, 1828) I pointed out the 

 distinction between the Fur Seal of New South Shetland and the 

 Hair Seal of Australia. 



The skull from the cabinet of M. Faujus which Cuvier figures 

 (Oss. Foss. v. 222. t. 18. f. 4), is much more like the skull of an 

 adult Arctocephalus than of Otaria jubata ; the outer and upper 

 cutting teeth are scarcely larger than the others. 



There are ten skulls of this genus in the Paris Museum : 



1, 2. From the Cape of Good Hope. Adult and half-grown. 

 The palates become narrower behind. The front outer upper 

 cutting rather large : grinders large, all except first and hinder 

 upper with two lobes. See Cuv. Oss. Foss. 221. t. 18. f. 5. 



3. Old skull from Parzudasky. 



4. From Australia, by MM. Quoy and Gaimard. 



5. Adult. From Port Jackson. P. cinerea. Very little dif- 

 ferent from the adult from the Cape of Good Hope. 



6. 7. Imperfect. King George's Sound. MM. Quoy and Gai- 

 mard (Cuv. Oss. Foss. 222; Blainv. I. c. 300). 



8. Adult. Auckland? The Zelee, 1841. 



9, 10. From America, by M. D'Orbigny. The grinders larger, 

 more acute, and rather further apart. 



* Fur long, under coat thick, soft, silky. Fur Seals. 



1. ARCTOCEPHALUS URSINUS. 



"Hair long, erect, thick, under-fur brownish red. Males 

 black, older ones with the hairs white-tipped, the hair of the 

 neck longer and stiff; females ash-coloured; of the very young 

 black ; flaps of hinder toes very long, slender. Length 8 or 9 

 feet." 



Ursus marinus, Steller, Nov. Com. Petrop. ii. 331. t. 15 (copied 



in). 

 Phoca ursina, 0. Fab. Fauna Green. 6 ? ; Schreb. iii. 289. t. 82 ; 



Gmel. S. N. i. 62 ; Shaw, Zool. i. 265. t. 72 ; Fischer, Syn. 



231 ; F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. xi. 205. t. 15. f. 1, skull? 

 Otaria ursina, Desm. ; Per on fy Lesueur, Voy. ii. 41 ; Nouv. 



Diet. H. N. xxv. 595 ; Mam. 249 ; Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 182. 

 Otaria ursina, var. Mus. Leyden. 



Otaria Fabricii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 419,/rom 0. Fab. 

 O. Krachenninikovii, Lesson, Diet. Class. H. N. xiii. 420. 

 Chat marine, Krachenninikow, Hist. Kamtsch. i. 306. 



