182 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



" The Pekdpekd, or Bats, and various small batlets, are very 

 common in the Island, but none of the Vampire species. (Ptero- 

 pus ? or Glossophaga?) They are among the smallest of the 

 Australian species." Polack, i. 304. I am not aware that any 

 of these animals have reached Europe ; they would he interesting, 

 and doubtless new. " There is, apparently, only one species ; pro- 

 bably the one figured by Forster." Dieffenbach. 



The following Marine Mammalia are recorded as found 

 there by Polack and others ; but, as I have seen no specimen 

 of any of them, I am not able to verify the accuracy of the 

 systematic names applied to them. 



Fam. PHOCID^E. 



2. The Bottle-nose Seal. Polack, N. Z. ii. 316. Ma- 



crorhinus leoninus : Phoca leonina, Linn. / P. probo- 

 scidea, Peron and Lesueur, Voy. Terres Aust. ii. 34, 

 t. 32 ; Sea Lion, Anson, Voy. 

 Inhab. Uwona, 1836. Polack. 



3. Sea Lion and Lioness. Polack, N. Z. ii. 316. Forster, 



Cook's Voy. iv. 71 t. Otaria jubata, Desm. Mam.,, 

 248. O. Leonina, Peron, Voy. O. Pernettyi, Lesson. 

 Phoca jubata, Schreb. 300, t. 83 B., from Pernetty, 

 Voy. ii. 47, t. 10. 

 Inhab. Southern Islands. Islets to the south-west of 



Island of Victoria. 



I saw a skin of one which was caught on the west coast of the 

 middle island. Dieffenbach. 



4. Sea Bear. Polack, N.Z. 317- Arctocephalus Ursi- 



nus, F. Curier. Phoca Ursina, Linn. I. N. i. 55. 

 Bursina potius volans. Forster. Icon ined., n. 2. 

 Otaria Ursina, Desm. Ursina marina, Steller, Nov. 

 Com. Petrop., ii. 331, t. 15 ; cop. Schreb., t. 82. 

 Inhab. New Zealand, Dusky Bay. G. Forster. 

 Young. Black, beneath rather browner, fins black. 

 Seals are " called by the general name of Karavake Ktkino by 

 the natives." Polack. 



From 6 feet to 10 feet in length. 



" The Fur-Seal of commerce (probably A. Ursinui) was for- 

 merly hunted in great numbers, especially on the western coast 



