430 FAMILY PHOCID^. 



liowever, really covered several distinct species), as follows: 1. 

 Le grand Phoque a niuseau ride {=MacrorMnus leoninus); 2. 

 Le Phoque li ventre blanc (=primarily Monachus albiventer, 

 with an original descrijjtion and a good figure, from a specimen 

 taken October 28, 1777, in the Adriatic Sea, l)ut to wliich he er- 

 roneously referred Parsons's Long-bodied Seal, he giving a trans- 

 lation of Parsons's description and a copy of liis figure, and also 

 the Utsuk of Cranz, and a large Seal mentioned by Charlevoix 

 as found on "les cotes de I'Acadie"); 3. Le Phoque a capu- 

 chon ( = Cystophora eristata) ; 4. Le Phoque a croissant ( =Phoca 

 ffrcenlandica, at least mainly) ; o. Le Phoque Neit-soak {PJioca 

 fcetida); G. Le Phoque Laktak de Kamtschatka {=Eri(jnatlms 

 barhatus); 7. Le Phoque Gassigiak (= the Seal "apx)elee Ms- 

 s igialc -p&T les Groenlandois"; consequently Phoca vitulina) ; 8. 

 Le Phoque commun ( = primarily Phoca vitulina, but with allu- 

 sions to other species). Of these eight species two are composite, 

 and one is purely nominal.* 



In the same year (1782) also appeared Molina's work on the 

 natural history of Chili, t in which, under the head of Phoca, are 

 described four species, all claimed by the author to be new. 

 These are : 1. "L'Urique, Phoca lupina^^ (a Fur-Seal, or at least 

 an Otary); 2. "II Porco marina, Phoca porcina^^ (probably the 

 young of the next); 3, "II Lame, Phoca elephantina^^ {=Phoca 

 leonina, Linne, 1758 and 1766) ; 4. " II Leon marin, Phoca leo- 

 nina " ( = Otaria juhata, auct. ) . 



In 1784 Boddaert appears to have added (I have not the work I 

 Sbt hand) four synonyms, as follows: 1. Phoca alhiventer (=P. 

 monachus, Herm.); 2. Phoca semilunaris (=P. grcenlandica) ; 3. 



*Tliis enumeration, liowever, is a great improvement upon tliat given by 

 the same author in 1765, in the thirteenth volume of his " Histoire natnrelle", 

 where all the Seals then known are referred to four species. " . . . . le 

 premier (j)l. xlv) est le phoque de notre oc6au, dont il y a plusieurs vari6- 

 t^s" ; called also "le Veau marin on Phoque de nos mers". The second, sup- 

 posed to Te "le jylioca des ancieus", and which is figured in pi. liii, is a young 

 Eared Seal, the Phoca jtusilla of later writers, of which he says, "on nous a 

 assur6 que I'iudividu que nous vu venoit des Indes", etc. Later it is 

 called "le petit phoque noir des Indes & du Levant". (See further, anted, 

 p. 194. ) The third is the Seal described by Parsons in 1743 the Long-bodied 

 Seal of this and many subsequent authors here called "le grand phoque 

 des mers du Nord". The fourth is Anson's "Sea Lion", but wliich here 

 covers also "les grands phoques des mers du Canada, dontparle Denis, sous 

 le nom de loups marins", to Avhich he is also inclined to refer the larger Seal 

 described by Parsons ! 



tSaggio Sulla Storia Naturalc del Chili, pp. 275-290,341. 



tElenchus Animalium, vol. i, 1784, pp. 170, 171. 



