104 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fur- and Hair-Seals 
Cuvier (Ossem. Fossiles, v. p. 220) describes an Eared Seal, 
purchased of M. Hauville, of Havre, as coming from the Falk- 
land Islands, thus :—‘‘ Elle est longue de quatre pieds deux 
pouces, d’un cendré en dessous, blanchatre aux flanes et sous la 
poitrine, une bande d’un brun rouge régne le long du dessous du 
ventre et une bande noiratre va transversalement d’une na- 
geoire 4 l’autre.” It has been called Otaria Hawvillit (Lesson, 
Dict. Class. xiii. 425) and Phoca Hauvillit (Fischer, Syn. 
Mamm, 254). Cuvier adds that this specimen has been indicated 
by M. de Blainville (Journ. de Phys. xci. p. 298) under the 
name of Otarie de Péron. This animal is probably the same 
as the one mentioned by Pennant, and in the British Museum. 
The streaks on the lower part of the body were probably only 
an accidental or individual variation. The specimen in the 
British Museum is uniform white below, without any indica- 
tion of a longitudinal streak or cross band. 
Il. The British Museum contains the skin and skull of a large 
blackish Eared Seal, nearly 6 feet long, that was purchased 
of a dealer as “a Fur-Seal from the Falkland Islands ;” but, 
as the dealers seem always to give that as the habitat for all 
the seal-skins with a distinct under-coat that come into their 
possession, I have quoted the habitat with doubt. When oc- 
cupied in describing the Seals of the southern hemisphere for 
the ‘Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,’ I named this Seal 
Arctocephalus nigrescens, and had the skull figured under that 
name; but the plate has not yet been published, though copies 
of it have been given to Dr. Peters and other zoologists. In 
the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1859, pp. 109 
360, and in the ‘Catalogue of Seals and Whales,’ I deseri 
the skull of this species. There is also in the Museum a skull 
of a younger animal of the same species. 
Capt. Abbot, in 1866, sent to the British Museum a large 
and a small Seal from the Falkland Islands. The large one 
was examined and determined to be the Southern Sea-Lion 
(Otaria jubata). ‘The small one, nearly three feet long, was 
very similar in external appearance; and as the teeth, which 
could be seen without extracting the skull, showed that it was 
a young animal, it was regarded as the young of the Sea-Lion, 
and it was stuffed without extracting the skull, and labelled as 
such. ‘This specimen has been examined by several zoologists, 
among the rest by Dr. Peters, when engaged with his paper on 
Eared Seals, and has passed unchallenged until this time, thus 
showing how difficult it is to distinguish these animals by their 
external characters alone. Capt. Abbot, who is now residing 
in England, informed me that the smaller specimen was the 
