108 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fur- and Hatr-Seals - 
Buenos Ayres] a young half-grown specimen [of Arctocephalus 
falklandicus| nearly 3 feet in length. From this I have taken 
the skull, of which I send you a description and drawings.”’ 
(Ann. N. H. 1866, xviii. p. 99, t. 9. f. 1, 2,3,4.) From the 
comparison of the figures, and especially of the teeth and the 
form of the palate, with our older skull of Arctocephalus Hookeri, 
I have little doubt that it is the skull of a specimen of that 
— before the grinders were all developed. It is not the 
skull of Otaria jubata, which the other specimen he called A. 
Jalklandicus is, as proved by the form and position of the 
hinder nasal openings. The figure of the young skull differs 
from the older skull of A. Hookert in the British Museum in 
having a notch in the middle, while the older skull of A. 
Hookeri has a conical prominence in the same place. Such 
differences are found in skulls of Seals at different ages. 
IV. In1865, a French sailor named Leconte, serving on board 
the ‘ Paulina,’ of Buenos Ayres, brought to England a young 
male Sea-Bear that was captured near Cape Horn, im the 
month of June 1862. A female he had obtained shortly after- 
wards had not survived to reach Europe. Having been pre- 
viously shown in France, in England it was first exhibited 
in the Cremorne Gardens, Leconte having taught it several 
tricks, such as ascending a ladder, firing off a pistol, and 
sitting in his lap and kissing him, rewarding it for each of 
its tricks with a piece of fish. The animal was at length 
purchased by the Zoological Society, and Leconte retained to 
attend to it. It is well figured in the ‘ Illustrated London 
News,’ the ‘ Boy’s own Book,’ and in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society’ for 1866, p. 80. . 
The animal died in 1867; and Dr. Murie has undertaken 
to give an account of its anatomy, which I look for with much 
impatience, as I am not aware that the anatomy of the family 
has ever been given. Leconte has been sent by the Society 
to the Falkland Islands in hopes that he may bring to Europe 
some other Seals of the southern hemisphere. 
When I first saw this Seal, on account of its short fur, dark 
colour, and yellow nape, I named it Otaria jubata ; and it was 
so named for a time in the Zoological Gardens; afterwards 
Mr. Sclater determined it to be the Arctocephalus Hookert, 
and figured it as such (P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 80), overlooking the 
pale colour of the fur of that species. 
Dr. Burmeister (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1866, xviii. p. 99) says 
the Sea-Lion ( Otaria jubata) and Arctocephalus falklandicus are 
the only Seals “found in the Atlantic near the mouth of the 
Rio de la Plata. ‘They were formerly common on the small 
