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Seal'." Gray, however, had formerly referred it doubtfully 

 (Cat. Seals, 1850, 43; Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 56) to 

 Arctocephalus faWandicus. 



3. Phoca JiavescetiSj Shaw, Gen. ZooL, i, 1800, 260, a small, 

 "yellowish" Eared Seal, described from a specimen in the 

 Leverian Museum brought from the Straits of Magellan. It is 

 the "Eared Seal" of Pennant (Quad., ii, 278), and the Otaria 

 flavescens of Desmarest (Mam., 1820, 252). From its size (about 

 two feet long), color, and habitat, it is presumably referable to 

 Otaria jubata, but has been referred by Gray to his Phocarctos 

 hoolccri. 



4. Otaria cinerea, Peeon, Voy. Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 54, 77, 

 is merely referred to in such general terms that it is wholly in- 

 determinable. The name, however, has been commonly referred 

 to the Hair Seal of Australia, for which species the name has 

 been adopted by Peters (see above, p. 203). 



5. Otaria alMcolIis, Peeon, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1810, 

 118. An Eared Seal, eight to nine feet long, distinguished by 

 a large white spot on the middle and upper part of the neck. 

 Observed in great numbers on the islands near Bass Straits. 

 No tangible characters given, and wholly unrecognizable. Ee- 

 ferred, however, by Peters, in 1877, to his <' Uumet02nas cinerea 

 (Peron)," the Zalophns lobatus of Gray. 



6. Otaria coronata, Desmaeest, Mam., 1820, 251. Says 

 Desmarest : " PJioca coronata, Plain v. Espece nouveUe observee 

 dans le Museum de Bullock, a Londres. " Locality unknown. 

 Though said to be an Eared Seal, one foot and a half long, 

 black, sparsely and irregularly spotted with yellow, the fore 

 feet are said to have five toes, nearly equal, and armed with 

 very strong, curved, sharp nails, while the hind feet have five 

 nails, "mais depasses par des pointes onemhraneuses^'' a combi- 

 nation of characters unknown in nature. 



7. Otaria porcina, F. Cuviee, Dict.des Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1826, 

 559. Based on the Phoca porcina, Molina, Hist. Nat. du Chile, 

 260, recognizable merely as an Eared Seal^ which Gray and 

 Peters have thought possibly referable to the Arctocephalus 

 falMandicus. 



8. Otaria peroni, Desmaeest, Mam., 1820, 250. The same 

 as Phoca piisilla, Schreber, and the Petit Phoque of Bitffon, 

 already noticed. 



9. Otaria fabricii, Lesson, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii,1828, 

 419,= Phoca ursina, Fabricius, Faun. Groenl., 6. Based on a 



