436 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



It is believed that it was this fur seal that formerly was 

 abundant at Tristan da Cunha and the neighboring islands. 

 This group was first "visited for fur seals in 1790 by Captain 

 Patten, of the American schooner Industry, of Philadelphia, 

 who secured 5,000 skins. Large numbers are said to have been 

 subsequently obtained there, probably from the smaller islands 

 of the group, Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands. The latter 

 is apparently still frequented by a few fur seals. Gough 

 Island, somewhat to the southward of the Tristan group, 

 formerly abounded with fur seals " (J. A. Allen, in Jordan and 

 others, 1899); but according to Capt. George Comer there 

 were practically none left by 1887, when his vessel put six men 

 ashore there for nine months. They were able to secure only 

 40 or 50 skins. Nevertheless "odd specimens were killed in the 

 Tristan group up to 1920, but now appear to have been ex- 

 terminated" (Shortridge, 1934). 



Whether the fur seal of the Crozet Islands was the same as 

 the South African form or more resembled that of Kerguelen 

 Island does not seem to have been determined. However, for 

 the present it is included under the latter. 



PHILIPPE'S FUR SEAL 

 ARCTOCEPHALUS PHILIPPII (Peters) 



Otaria (Arctophoca) philippii Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, p. 276 (Juan 



Fernandez Island, Peru). 

 SYNONYMS: Otaria (Arctophoca') argentata Philippi, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871, 



p. 560, pis. 1, 2 (Juan Fernandez Island) ; Otaria leucostoma Philippi, Anal. Mus. 



Nac. Chile, sect. 1, zool, pp. 6, 46, 1892 (Masafuera Island); Arctocephalus 



galapagoensis Heller, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 3, zool., vol. 3, pp. 245-248, 



1904 (Wenman Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador). For additional synonymy 



see J. A. Allen, 1905, p. 131. 

 FIGS.: Allen, J. A., 1905, pi. 15, fig. 2; pi. 16, fig. 1; pi. 17, fig. 1 (skulls); Townsend, 



1934, figs. 15-22 (photographs and skull). 



Closely allied to the southern fur seal, this species is de- 

 scribed as blackish gray above, becoming more yellowish gray 

 on the head and neck; brownish black below, lips and chin 

 rusty brown. Six rows of mustachial bristles, some all black, 

 some all white, some particolored. The long overhair is rusty 

 brown basally with rusty yellow tips on the back, head, and 

 neck; on the ventral surface uniform brownish black or tipped 

 with ferruginous. The thick underfur is rusty red. Total 

 length of a young adult male, 1,570 mm.; tail, 35; hind foot, 



