196 F.UIILY 0TA1?IID.E. 



BtelleT=C(dh)r]uni(s ursinus); 5. Otarki perncityi { = Otariajiiba- 

 ta) ; 0. Otaria forstcrt (embraces all the Fur Seals of the Southern 

 Hemisphere); 7. Otaria moUissina (" Lesson et Garnot, Zoologie 

 delaCoquille,pl. iii,p. 140"; habitat, " lies Malonines " ; thelong 

 description contains nothing in itself distinctive of any species, 

 but it has been determined, by Nilsson and Gray, from the skull 

 and skin in the Paris Museum, to be a young Otaria jubata) ) 8. 

 Otaria peroni {='' Otaria peroni^ Desm., sp. 382"; embraces 

 '' Flioca imsiUa Linn.", "Petit Phoque, Buffon," "Otarie de La- 

 lande, F. Cuvier," and "Loup marin, Pages"; habitat. Cape 

 of Good Hope ; formerly referred by Gray to his Arctoceplialus 

 delalandi, to which it is mainly referable); 9. Otaria coronata 

 ("Desm., spec. 383; Flioca coronata, Blainv."; undetermiuable, 

 and habitat unknown) ; 10. Otaria cinerea ("Peron et Lesueur," 

 as above); 11. Otaria albicollis ("Peron et Lesueur," as above) ; 

 12. Otaria fiavescens (= ^^ Phoca Jlavescens, Shaw," as above; not 

 determinable); 13. Otaria sliawi {= PJioca faUdandicus, ^haw, 

 therefore = ArctocejjJialus falJdandictis, auct.) ; 14. Otaria hau- 

 mllii ("G. Cuvier, Oss. Foss., t. v, p. 220"; = Arctocephalus falTc- 

 landicus, auct.; habitat, "lies Malouines") ; 15. ^^ Otaria moli- 

 oiaii" { = ^^F]wca porcina, Molina"; no tangible description, and 

 wholly undeterminable). 



Fischer, in 1829-30,* appears to have recognized fifteen (only 

 twelve have numerals prefixed) species of Eared Seals, which 

 are the same as those described by Lesson in 1828, with the ex- 

 cex)tion that Lesson's Otaria fabricii is not admitted, and Gray's 

 Arctocephalus lobatus is added. 



Hamilton, in 1839,t recognized twelve species, as follows : 1. 

 " Sea-Lion of Steller" (= Eumetopias stelleri) ; 2. " Sea-Lion of 

 Forster" (= Otaria jubata) ; 3. " Sea-Lion of Pernetty" (= Ota- 

 ria jubata, mainly); 4. " Pusilla, or Cape Otary" {^^ Otaria 

 pusilla, Desm.," but really based on a skull from the Cape of 

 Good Hope); 5. "Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Steller [=Cal- 

 lorlmms ursinus); 6. "Ursine Seal, or Sea Bear of Forster" 

 {= Arctocephalus falMandicus, auct.); 7. " Sea Bear, from speci- 

 men in the British Museum" {=f Otaria jubata, according to 

 Gray); 8. " Lesson's Otary, 0. moUissina, Lesson" {= Arctocepha- 

 lus falMandicus) ', 9. and 10. "Ash-coloured and white-necked 

 Otaries" (= Otaria cmerm and 0. albicollis, Feron) ; 12. "Com- 

 mon Fur-Seal of Commerce" {= Arctocephalus falMandicus). 



* Synopsis Mammalium, pp. 230-234, 374 (i. e. 574). 

 \ t Amphibious Camivora, etc. (Jardine's Nat. Library, Mam., yoI. viii). 



