of the Falkland Islands and Southern America. 107 
Dr. Burmeister. In Capt. Abbot’s specimen the brain-case 
from the back edge of the orbit to the occiput is as long as the 
length of the face from the same edge of the orbit to the end 
of the nose. In Dr. Burmeister’s figure, the face from the 
same point is much longer than the brain-case. 
III. On the return of the ‘ Erebus’ and ‘ Terror,’ the British 
Museum received from the Lords of the Admiralty several 
skins of a Hair-Seal from the Falkland Islands and the Ant- 
arctic Sea, of a brownish-grey colour and paler beneath, which 
I described under the name of Arctocephalus Hookert, and 
figured the skull. Unfortunately we had no very definite 
habitat for some of the specimens. All the skins were preserved 
in salt. . 
3. Phocarctos Hookert, Gray, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, xviii. p. 234. 
Fur brown grey, slightly grizzled, pale, nearly white beneath ; 
hairs short, close-pressed, rather slender, flattened, black, with 
whitish tips, the tips becoming longer on the under part of 
the sides; feet reddish or black; whiskers black or whitish. 
Young pale yellow, varied with darker irregular patches ; 
length 18 inches. B.M. 
Arctocephalus Hookeri, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. 14, 15 (skull) ; 
Cat. Seals B. M. p. 45. £.15; P.Z.S. 1859, pp. 109, 360; Cat. Seals 
and Whales, B.M. p. 54. 
Arctocephalus Falklandicus, Burmeister, Ann, & Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. t. 9. 
f. 1, 2,3, 4 (skull only). 
Young or albino? entirely cream-coloured, about 2 feet 
long. : 
Eared Seal, Pennant, Quad. ii. p. 278. 
Phoca flavescens, Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. p. 260, t.73 (from Pennant). 
Hab. Falkland Islands. 
_ Pennant, in his ‘ Quadrupeds,’ describes an Eared Seal, rather 
more than 2 feet long, the whole body of which was covered 
___ with longish hair of a whitish or eream-colour ; it was brought 
_ from the Straits of Magellan, and preserved in Parkinson’s 
Museum on the south side of Blackfriar’s Bridge (see “ Eared 
Seal,” Pennant’s Quad. ii. p. 278). Dr. Shaw, in his ‘ General 
Zoology,’ eve the name of Phoca flavescens to this species, 
and figured it (i. p. 260, t. 73). 
This is very probably the young of the Hair-Seal of the 
Falklands, described by me as Arctocephalus Hookert, which is 
of a pale-yellowish colour. Pennant does not mention the 
want of the under-fur. 
Dr. Burmeister observes :—“ We have in the Museum [at 
