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or any other writer. It may have been a young Sea-Elephant, 

 this being the only Phocicl reported from that locality. 



In 1839 Hamilton, in his "Natural History of the Amphibi- 

 ous Carnivora"* (pp. 124-227, 279, 280), recognized fifteen spe- 

 cies (adopting F. Cuvier's genera) of Earless Seals, as follows: 

 1. Calocephalus vituUna; 2. G. discolor {:=fcetida)', 3. G. harhata; 

 4. C. hicolor { = monachus); 5. G. fircenlandica ; 6. G. oceanica ( = 

 grcenlandica) 'j 7. G. Mspida {=foetida)', 8. G. leporina [= harhata); 

 9. HaUchcerus griseiis { = g>'ypus); 10. Stenorliynclius leptonyx; 

 U.S. leojjardina { = tveddelli) ; 12. Pelagius mo nachiis ; 13. 8te7n- 

 matopus cristatus ; 14. 8. mitratus {= cristata) ; 15. MacrorJiinus 

 prohoHcideus {=leomnus). Of these fourteen species nine only 

 are valid, and only six of these stand under their correct" si^eciflc 

 names. He also gives a list of four doubtful ones, only the 

 first of which is described. These are the following : 1. PJioca 

 fasciata; 2. P. coxii ; 3. P. lupina; 4. P. punctata. 



The same year (1839) Kutorgat gave a detailed account of 

 Phocafcetida, under the name Phoca communis., characterizing 

 two new varieties, which he called octonotata and undulata. 



Temminck, in 1842, in the "Fauna Japonica" (Mammiferes 

 Marins, pp. 1-4), passed in review the Seals of the North Pacific, 

 discussing especially those indicated by Steller and Pallas. The 

 only species particularly described is Pallas's Phoca largTia, 

 which he renamed Phoca nummularis. 



DeKay, in the same year (New York Zoology, part i, 1842, p. 

 53), based the name Phoca concolor upon New York examples 

 of Phoca vitulina, he belie^^ng the American animal to be spe- 

 cifically distinct from the European. 



In 1843 Lesson I described a specimen of Gystophora cristata 

 taken on the coast of France, under the name Phoca isidorei. 



In the same year (1843) Owen redescribed Lohodon carcino- 

 phaga under the name Stenorhynchus serridens. 



In 1844 Gray, in the "Zoology of the Erebus and Terror", 

 described Ommatophoca rossi^ a valid new species. 



Schinz, in the same year (1844), in his " Systematische Ver- 

 zeichuiss aller bis jetzt bekannters Saugethiere, oder Synop- 

 sis Mammalium" (i, pp. 429-486), recognized twelve species of 

 Phoca, and mentioned three additional doubtful ones, as follows : 



* Forming vol. viii of the Mammalia of Jardine's "Naturalist's Library". 

 t Bull. Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou, ann^e 1839, pp. 178-196, pll. xiii-xviii. 

 i Eevue Zoolgique, 1843, p. 256 ; Echo dii Monde Savant, 1843, p. 228. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, p. 131. 

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