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Fur-Seal of the Falkland Islands, that it grows to about half 
as long again as the specimen sent, and that the old males are 
grey from the tips of the hairs. I have therefore had the 
skull extracted from the specimen ; and there is no doubt that 
it is quite distinct from the Sea-Lion (Otaria jubata) ; and, on 
more careful examination of the skin, I have little doubt, from 
the colour and the character of the fur, that it is a young 
specimen of the Seal that I described as Arctocephalus nigres- 
cens. It is interesting as confirming the accuracy of the 
habitat that I received with that specimen, and which until 
this time I considered doubtful, as Pennant and others de- | 
scribe the Falkland-Island Fur-Seal as grey, and white beneath. 
Capt. Abbot’s young specimen chiefly differs from the adult 
one in the Museum in the hairs being longer, more erect, and 
with minute white tips, and in the face, throat, and chest 
_ being rufous brown; but this reddish colour is common to the 
young of several Sea-Bears. | 
Dr. Peters, on the authority of this habitat (which I have 
always quoted with doubt), has given the name of Arctophoca 
falklandica to the animal and skull on which I established 
my Arctocephalus nigrescens. | 
In the British Museum there is the skin of a very young 
Seal which was presented by Sir John Richardson as the 
Falkland-Island Fur-Seal, with the observation appended 
that .the adult is 5 feet long, and its skin is worth fifteen 
dollars. It is without its skull. The-fur of this young Seal is 
dark brown, reddish beneath, and very like that of the young 
specimen sent by Capt. Abbot; but the hairs are smoother, 
and the white tips to them are longer and more marked, giving 
the animal a more grizzled appearance. 
There is another young Hared Seal, very like the former, 
which was received with General Hardwicke’s collection (who, 
no doubt, purchased it of a dealer), said to have come from the 
Cape of Good Hope. I suspect this habitat must be erroneous; 
for it is very unlike what I recollect of the young of the Cape 
_ Eared Seals, which are called ‘ Black Dogs,” on account of 
the blackness of their colour. Untarainately we have no spe- 
cimen of the latter in the Museum Collection. General Hard- 
wicke’s specimen only differs from Sir John Richardson’s in 
being less punctulated with white; fewer hairs have a white 
tip, and the tip is shorter. 
Both these young specimens differ from the half-grown one 
obtained from Capt. Abbot in the fur being softer and smooth 
to the touch ; and Capt. Abbot’s specimen differs from the adult 
in the length and greater crispness of its fur, the fur of the 
old one being harsh and hard and closer pressed. 
