442 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



stopped it is likely that the number can be increased to form 

 eventually a valuable source of income under proper manage- 

 ment. For already there is some evidence that as a result of 

 partial respite, it is beginning to show an increase. Indeed, 

 according to Grinnell (1933) one was credibly reported near 

 the Santa Barbara Islands in 1929. In 1930 Huey noted that 

 two were brought to the San Diego Zoo alive in April, 1928, and 

 that on further inquiry it developed that these had been cap- 

 tured on Guadalupe Island where a herd numbering about 60 

 was present. 



That this fur seal was common in former times on the coast 

 of southern California is attested by the discovery of abundant 

 remains in aboriginal shell mounds at Point Mugu, Ventura 

 County (see Gretchen M. Lyon, 1935). 



COMMANDER ISLANDS FUR SEAL 

 CALLORHINUS URSINUS URSINUS (Linnaeus) 



Phoca ursina Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 37, 1758 (Commander 

 Islands, Bering Sea). 



KURILE ISLANDS FUR SEAL 

 CALLORHINUS URSINUS MIMICUS (Tilesius) 



Phoca mimica Tilesius, Oken's Isis, Heft 8, p. 715, 1835 (Bay of Patience near Cape 

 Patience, Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea). 



SYNONYMS: Callorhinus curilensis Jordan, Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of North 

 Pacific Ocean, pt. 1, p. 45, 1898; Jordan and Clark, ibid., pt. 3, p. 3, 1899 (Robben 

 Island, south of Cape Patience, Okhotsk Sea) ; Callotaria ursina mimica Stejneger, 

 Georg Wilhelm Steller, p. 286, footnote 37, 1936; C[attotaria] curilica Stejneger, 

 Georg Wilhelm Steller, p. 286, footnote 37, 1936. 



Probably no other wild species has been so thoroughly 

 studied and written of as the fur seal of the North Pacific. 

 Three local forms have been named, each of which represents 

 a supposedly circumscribed colony. The typical C. ur sinus, 

 first brought to the attention of naturalists by Steller, was 

 found by him in 1741 on Bering Island, of the Commander 

 group off the east coast of Kamchatka. Jordan and Clark 

 (1. c.) overlooked the name mimicus applied by Tilesius (1. c.) 

 to the fur seal of the Okhotsk Sea and proposed Callorhinus 

 curilensis for the fur seal of Robben Island off Cape Patience, 

 Sakhalin Island, in Okhotsk Sea; and at the same time dis- 

 tinguished that of the Pribilof Islands as Callorhinus alascanus 



