446 FAMILY PHOCID-S:. 



10. Phoca frederici (= discolor , F. Cuvier); 11. Phoca pylayi 

 {= lagura, G. Cuvier) ; 12. Phoca demaresti (= alMcauda, Des- 

 inarest) ; 13. Phoca hermanni (= monachus, Hermann, to wliicli 

 are referred also albiventer, Bodd., and leucogaster, Peron) ; 14. 

 Phoca chorisi (= Chien de Mer, Choris) ; 15. Phoca hyroni (ex 

 Blainville) ; 16. Phoca homei (= leptonyx^ Blainville); 17. Phoca 

 weddelli {Otaria weddelli, Less.); 18. Phoca prohoscidea (includes 

 Iconina, Linn., elephantina, Molina, and ansoni, Desm., in part). 



Of these pigliteen " species " nine are purely nominal; eleven 

 are needlessly renamed, and in addition to wliicli Choris's 

 " Ohien de Mer" is for the first time introduced into systematic 

 nomenclature, thereby adding* in all twelve synonyms in a 

 notice of eighteen supx)osed species, rex)resenting only nine 

 valid ones. The only redeemable feature is the proper alloca- 

 tion of twelve nominal species of preceding authors. He also 

 considers it probable that Peron's Phoca resima, Desmarest's 

 Phoca coxii, and Molina's Phoca lupma, should be referred to his 

 Phoca prohoscidea. Of the nine valid species only two stand 

 under tenable specific names. 



Fischer, in 1829, in his " Synopsis Mammalium," recognized 

 eighteen species of ^^Phocw^^ under his division ^^^fAuricuUs 

 nuUis" (1. c, pp. 234-242, "375-378," i. e., 575-578), which are 

 as follows: 1. Phoca leonina, Linn. (= P. prohoscidea^ P4ron) ; 

 2. Phoca ansoni, Desm. ; 3. Phoca byroni, Blainv. (the three pre- 

 ceding all referable, either wholly or in part, to Ilacrorhinus 

 leoninus) ; 4. Phoca monachus, Herm. ; 5. Phoca vituUna, Linn. ; 



6. Phoca IciJorina, Jjepech. ; 7. Phoca discolor {= Callocephalus 

 discolor^ F. Cuv.) ; 8. Phoca scopulicola, Thienm. ; 9. Phoca leu- 

 copla, Thienm.; 10. Phoca lagura, G. Cuv.; 11. Phoca groen- 

 landica, " Miill." ; 12. Phoca grypus, Fabr. ; 13. Phoca hisjnda,, 

 Schreber ; 14. Phoca harhata, " Miill." ; 15. Phoca leptonyx, 

 Blainv.; 16. Phoca iveddelU, "Less."; 17. Phoca cristata,Erxl.', 

 18. Phoca chorisi, Less. Thirteen others are given as doubtful 

 or not well determined, one of which is here first named. These 

 are: 1. Phoca duhia (n. sp., =Macrorhinus leoninus^ juv.*) ; 2. 

 Phoca oceanica, Lepech. ; Phoca lupina, Molina ; 4. Phoca sericea, 

 Thunb. ; 5. Phoca canina, Thunb. ; 6. Phoca viiuUna, Thunb. ; 



7. Phoca testudinea, Shaw ; 8. Phoca fasciata, Shaw ; 9. Phoca 

 punctata, " Ency. Brit."; 10. Phoca maculata, "Ency. Brit."; 



11. Phoca nigra, " Ency. Brit." ; 13. Phoca antarctica, Thunb. 

 (= Arctocephalus antarctictis). In the "Addenda" (1830), how- 



* See Nilsson, Wiegmann's ArcMv, 1841, pp. 324, 325. 



