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Fore-feet rather large ; claws indistinct ; tail very short, coni- 

 cal ; hind-feet large, with the three middle claws long, subcylin- 

 drical, the 5th or inner one rudimentary ; toe-flaps very long, the 

 outer one broad, 2nd, 3rd and 4th rather longest and narrow, 

 the 5th shortest, all much longer than the very short toes ; fur 

 rather rough, of the head, neck and chin longer ; hair cylindrical ; 

 under-fur none. 



The skulls of the adult Arctocephali have been mistaken for 

 the skulls of this genus, but the form of the hinder part of the 

 palate, which is little altered by the age of the specimens, at 

 once separates the two genera. I was formerly inclined to be- 

 lieve that the form of the hinder part of the palate altered, but 

 the examination of the skin, with its skull attached, of an adult 

 Arctocephalus lobatus, has proved the error of this theory. 



Otaria, sp., Peron Sf Lesueur, Voy. Terr. Austr. ; Desm. Mam. ; 



Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. 1837; Scand. Fauna, t. ; Wiegm. 



Arch. vii. 

 Platyrhynchus (Platyrhinque), F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. ix. 209. 



t. 15. f. 2; Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 465; Gray, in Brookes's Cat. 



Mam. 37, 1828 ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 231. 



Otaria, Gray, Zool. Erebus Sf Terror-, Turner, P. Z. S. 1848, 88. 

 Platyrhinus, Lesson, Mam. 204. 



1. OTARIA STELLERI. NORTHERN SEA BEAR. 

 Reddish, females tawny. 



Otaria Stelleri, Lesson, D. C. H. N. xiii. 420; J. Muller, Wiegm. 



Arch. vii. 330, 333. 



Leo marinus, Steller, Nov. Comm. Petrop. ii. 360. 

 Phoca jubata, Gmel. S. N. i. 63, part. 

 Otaria jubata, Peron et Lesueur, Voy. ii. 40 (not Desm.). 

 Leonine Seal (part.), Penn. Quad. ii. 534. 

 Phoca Stelleri, Fischer, Syn. 231. 



Otaria Calif orniana, Lesson, D. C. H. N. xiii. 420, from 

 Lion Marin de la Californie, Chloris, Voy. Pict. t. 11. 

 Phoca Californiana, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 231. 

 Otaria jubata (part.), Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand. ; Scand. Fauna ; 



Wiegm. Arch. vii. 381. 

 Inhab. Northern Pacific Ocean. 



2. OTARIA LEONINA. SOUTHERN SEA BEAR, 

 Deep brown. 



Sea Lion, Cook, Voy. ii. 203 ; Forster, Voy. round the World, 



ii. 512; Weddell, Voy. 198. 

 Leonine Seal (part.), Penn. Quad. ii. 534. 

 Lions marins, Pernetty, Voy. ii. 47. t. 10. 



