Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fur- and Hair-Seals. 99 
6. Adolias cocytina, Horsfield. 
_ g. A. Cocytina, Horsfield, Zoological Journal (1855), p. 67, pl. 4. 
figs. 3, 3a. 
9. Ale supra velut in A. Gopia scripte ; minores, maculis discalibus 
anticarum albis fusco magis tinctis, posticarum punctiformibus. 
Alze subtus magis ochracez, maculis inferioribus discalibus anticarum 
magis elongatis; serie macularum in posticis magis ad marginem 
approximantibus ; aliter velut in A. Gopia?. 
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XVII.— Observations on Sea-Bears (Otariade), and especially 
on the Fur-Seals and Hair-Seals of the Falkland Islands 
and Southern America. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., 
V.P.Z.S., F.L.S. &e. 
THE Sea-Bears (Otariade) inhabit the more temperate and 
colder parts of the southern hemisphere, and the temperate 
and more northern regions of the Pacific Ocean. 
Navigators, from the general external resemblance of the 
animals, have regarded the Sea-Lion and Sea-Bear of the 
northern and southern regions as the same animal. Pennant 
(who paid considerable attention to Seals) and most modern 
zoologists did the same. 
Nilsson, in his excellent Monograph of the Seals, only men- 
tions three species of Hared Seal :—1. Otaria jubata, 2. O. ur- 
sina, and 3. O. australis. He believed that the first was 
common to the Falkland Islands, Chile, Brazil, New Holland, 
and Kamtschatka, and the second to Magellan’s Straits, Pata- 
gonia, New Holland, and the Cape. We now know that the 
species have a very limited geographical distribution. 
When I published my ‘Catalogue of the Seals in the British 
Museum,’ in 1850, I was satisfied from Steller’s description 
that the species he described from the arctic regions were dis- 
tinct from those found in the southern seas; and when I at 
last succeeded in obtaining specimens and skulls from the 
_ horthern regions of the Pacific, I not only found that my idea 
was confirmed, but that they did not even belong to the same 
genera. I had the skulls of these species figured in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1859, and thus greatl 
extended the knowledge of the animals. But there is yet iitich 
to be learnt respecting them. We do not know the species 
of Fur-Seal described by Forster as inhabiting the coast of 
- New Zealand. 
As a proof of how little the Eared Seals or Sea-Bears were 
_ formerly understood, we have only to refer to Fischer’s ‘ Syn- 
