204 FAMILY OTARIID^. 



Phoquej" on which the name pusilla rests,* must have come 

 from the Cape of Good Hope.t The Fur Seals of South 

 America are recognized as belonging to two species, those of 

 the east coast, the Falkland Islands, the southern extremity of 

 the continent, and the west coast northward to Chili being re- 

 ferred to Arctocejjhalus falklandicus, while those from Juan Fer- 

 nandez and Masafuera Islands are assigned to A jjhilippi. We 

 are therefore left to suppose that his and Gray's A. nigrescens^ 

 his A. argentata^X Gray's Euotaria latirostris, and Scott's A. 

 grayi and A. eulophits, are regarded by him as synonyms of 

 these species. The Fur Seal of Australia he calls Arctocephalus 

 brevipes, citing " Otaria cinerea Quoy et Gaimard, Yoy. Astro- 

 labe, Zoolog. i, p. 89 (non Peron)." He also recognized A. ele- 

 gans from Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (to which he 

 doubtfaUy referred A. tropicalis, Gray); A. gazella, from Ker- 

 guelen Island; and the A.forsteri, Lesson, from New Zealand 

 and the Antarctic Seas to the southward of Kew Zealand. Four 

 of his species, namely, Arctocephalus elegans, A.forsteri, A. ga- 

 zella, and A. philipjni, appear to me to be invalid, while under 

 his Eumetopias gillespi, I beheve he has confounded two quite 

 distinct species, namely, Zalophus giUespi and Z. lohatus. Pe- 

 t-ers's thirteen species are the following : * 



8. Arctoceplialus brevipes, Peters. 



9. Arctocephalus elegans, Peters. 



10. Arctocephalus forsteri, Lesson. 



11. Arctocephalus gazella, Peters. 



12. Arctocephalus philippl, Peters. 



13. Arctocephalus ursinus (Linn^). 



1. Otaria jiibata.(Forster). 



2. Eumetopias stelleri (Lesson). 



3. Eumetopias gillespi (M'Bain). 



4. Eumetopias cinerea (P^ron). 



5. Eumetopias hooker! (Gray). 



6. Arctocephalus j)usillus (Schreber). 



7. Arctocephalus falklandicus, Shaw. 



Five are Hair Seals and eight are Fur Seals. Three onlj- are 

 given as found in the northern seas, while ten are recognized 

 as occurring in the southern. 



From the foregoing it will be seen how widely opinions have 

 differed respecting the number of species and their generic 

 affinities among recent writers on this group, and how unstable 

 have been the "views of the two leading authorities in this field 



* See antea, p. 194, second footnote. 



tG. Cuvier supposed it to have come from the Caj)e, because Pages (see 

 Butfon's Hist. Nat., SuiipL, vi, 357) had reported the young Otaries of the 

 Cape a,s of a black color (Oss. Foss. , 3d ed. , v, 220) ; but it is now well knowTi 

 that all Fur Seals are black when young. On the other hand, Daul)entou 

 insisted that Buffon's "Petit Phorxue" (see Desmarest, Mam., p. 251) came 

 from'TInde." 



X Antea, j). 202, footnote. 



