EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 233 



Olaria {EKinetopias) stclleri, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 186(i, 274,671. 



Eximctopias stelleri, Gray, Anu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 186G, 233 ; 

 Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales in Brit. Mns., 1871, 30 ; Proc. Zool. Soo. 

 Lond., 1872, 737 (in part), tigs. 4, 5 (the young sknll on which 

 Arctoccphcdus monteriensis, Gray, was in part based); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lend., 1873, 77G (its occnrrence in Japan stated to be donbtfnl) ; 

 Hand-List of Seals, etc., 1874, 40. Allex, Bnll. Mns. Coinp. ZoiiL, ii, 

 1870, 46, pll. i, iii, tigg. 9-1.5, and tigg. l-."> in text. Scammox, Marino 

 Mam., 1874, 124, four woodcuts of animal pp. 126, 127. Elliott, 

 Keport on the Prybilov or Seal Islands of Alaska, 1873 (text not 

 paged, live plates); Condlt ion of Affairs in Alaska, 1875, 1-52; Scxib- 

 ner's Monthly, xvi, Oct., 1878, 879 (popular account, with figures). 



Stemmatopias stelleri, Vax Benedex', Ann. du Mns. Roy. d'Hist. Nat. du Bel- 

 gique, pt. i, 1877, 15 (in text), lapsus penme for Eumetojnas stelleri ? 



Phoca leonina, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. , i, 1831, 104 {^= P. juhata, Gnieliu). 



Arctocephalus monteriensis, Grav, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 358, 360, pi. 

 Ixxii, skull (in part only ; the skin referable to Callorhiuus ursiiius) : 

 Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 49. 



Arctocephaluscalifornianus, Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 51 (=A. monte- 

 riensis, Gray, 1859, in part ; not = Otaria californiana, Lesson). 



Eumetopias californianus, Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 13 {= Arciocephalus 

 monteriensis, Gray, 1859, " and possibly also [identical] with Olaria 

 . stelleri, Miiller"; hence not =:: 0. californiana, Lesson). 



? Eiimeiopias elongatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 776, tigs. 1, 2 

 (=E. stelleri, Gray, ib., 1872, 737, figs. 1-3, Japan?). 



fPliocarctos elongatus. Gray, Hand-List Seals, etc., 1874, 30, pi. xxi, xxii. 



Meerlmven, Steller, Beschreib. von son der barer Meerthiere, 1753, 152. 



lie Lion marin, Buffox', Hist. Nat., Suppl., vi, 1782, 337 (in part only). 



Leonine Seal, Pexnaxt, Arctic Zool., i, , 200 (in part only). 



Lion Marin, Choris, Voyage Pittoresque, lies A16outienne, 1822, 12 (not 

 =^ Lion marin de la Cnlifornie, pi.- xi, "Port San-Francisco et scs 

 Habitants"). 



Leo marinus, the Sea King, Elliott, Scribner's Monthly, xvi, 879, Oct., 1878. 



"See-Vitchie,^' Russian; Lion marin, French; Seelbwe, German; Sea Lion, 

 Hair Seal, English. 



Habitat. Shores of the Xortli Pacific, from Behring's 

 Straits southward to California and Japan. 



External Characters. Length of full-grown male eleven 

 to twelve and a half or thirteen feet, of which the tail forms 

 three or four inches ; girth about eight to ten feet ; weight vari- 

 ously estimated at from one thousand to twelve hundred or 

 thirteen hundred pounds.* The weight of the full-grown female 



* A skull of this species in the National Museum (No. 4702), collected at 

 Fort Point, Bay of San Francisco, July, 1854, bears a label with the follow- 

 ing legend: 'Length 13 ft. 8 in. ; weight, by estimate, one ton." 



Captain Bryant, in some MSS. notes on this species recently received, 

 states that the full-grown male measures 13| to 14 feet from the tip of the 

 nose to the end of the outstretched hind-feet, and from 7^ to 9 feet in girth 



