of the Falkland Islands and Southern America. 109 
islands at the mouth of the river,” the Islas de los Lobos (Islands 
of Sea-wolves). ‘They not unfrequently come up as far as 
Buenos Ayres, where [ have twice seen full-grown living 
specimens of A. falklandicus. Both of these were, I believe, 
carried to France. ... They were kept here for a long time in 
a large basin of fresh water ; and I was one of the daily visitors 
to these very interesting animals. 
“We have in the Museum a young half-grown specimen, 
nearly 3 feet in length.” He figures the skull of this specimen, 
which is evidently the skull of a Phocarctos Hookert. 
The two living specimens mentioned are doubtless those. 
which Leconte brought to Europe. 
I have, since this paper was commenced, received the skull 
of the specimen that died in the Gardens, and find that it is a 
half-grown, rather stunted Otaria jubata, and may be thus 
described :— 
Fur dark brown; cheeks, temples, and sides of forehead black; 
neck greyish brown; back of the neck yellow brown; belly 
dusky black. Hairs flat, tapering, dark brown, yellow, and 
whitish intermixed, without any under-fur. 
The following synonyms may be added to those of the spe- 
cies in the ‘ Catalogue of Seals and Whales :-— 
Sea-Bear, Illustrated London News; Boy’s Own Book. 
Otaria jubata, Label in Zool. Gardens, 1865. 
Otaria Hookeri, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 80 (figure, young male). 
_ Aretocephalus falklandicus, Burmeister, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1866 (not skull). 
Hab. Cape Horn (Leconte). Skin-and skeleton, B.M. 
This animal has the harsh fur without any under-fur of 
Phocarctos Hookeri; but it entirely differs from that animal in 
the colour of the fur. This cannot arise from the greater age 
of the animal, as it is not nearly so large as the half-grown 
 P. Hookert in the British Museum. 
In the dark blackish-brown colour of the fur and the pale- 
brown colour of the nape, and in the absence of the under-fur, 
this Seal resembles the adult Neophoca lobata from Australia ; 
but in that species the pale colour extends all over the crown, 
_ while in the young male Otaria jubata there are only a few 
paler scattered hairs on the middle of the crown and nose. 
VY. I must refer to another species of Sea-Bear which has 
been mixed up with the Fur-Seal of the Falkland Islands. 
In the ‘ Monatsbericht,’ May 1866, p. 276, t.2.a,b,c, Dr. Peters 
described and figured with considerable detail a skull of a Sea- 
Bear (sent to the Berlin Museum by Dr. Philippi, who obtained 
it at Juan Fernandez Island) under the name of Otaria Phi- 
lippt, forming for it a subgenus which he calls Arctophoca. 
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