|8 



Southcni Cross. 



r.,r Ih.^ .ni....nalion. has kin.lly sent me a sketch of the teeth of 

 il,i^ — . inu«n, which places its identity heyond (luestion. 



, ym//-This calls for but little notice. The generic terms 

 /^;^..„vr ftud'.SV.«orAy«c/u/-s being preoccupied, must be succeeded by 

 /. <./f.< which is nearly twenty years older than Pofci%?7wca. 



//,^/<»rv ami J fistribu Hon.— The first examples of this Seal seem 

 to have iKjen brought home by Captain James Weddell from the 

 Jv.uth Orkneys, where several of them were killed on the loth of 

 January, 1S23 (pp. 22 and 24). As already stated, a specimen was 

 d..,-.>ifld in the oM Museum of the Edinburgh University, and 

 w. ^niscd by Professor Jameson as representing a new species 



-III \h' n'ferred to the division Stenorhinque of F. Cuvier," but 



KKMAI.K AND YOUNO OF WEDDELl.'s SEAL, 

 ( liy fiermUtion vj Sir George Ifewnes, Hart.) 



Willi thi' teeth not ipiite in agreement " with those of his Phoqne 



" •■•nyx (s-ir), n(»r with those of Sir E. Home, figured in pi. xxix. 



Philosophical Transactions for 1822." Aijain, in writinrj of 



h Shellands, WeddcU states (p. 124), that " some Sea-Leopards 



o U'fn seen." At page 24 of the same work is printed a 



brief «le.scription of the new Seal by Professor Jameson, who, however, 



not apply to it a Latin name, but contented himseK with styling 



'• " IwiiMinline seal." The description is in many respects vague. 



'h are m-itlier figured nor described, and the sketch, "drawn 



••■n-" by Wuddell him.self, is extremely fanciful. It is not 



• :. ...;iU5ing that U'.s.son, who saw an opportunity of describing 



li..- new 8|Kx-ie.s under the name of Olaria ivcdddlii, should have 



U-vn completely deceived as to its true nature. Lesson's description 



