216 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fur-Seals 
this country and deposited in this museum by Capt. Weddell, 
the enterprising navigator who visited the Antarctic regions in 
1823. They are both females, and were Bae irae in Edinburgh 
and described by Mr. R. Hamilton in this Journal (as referred 
to in the former paper), who observes that “the personal 
observation of Capt. Weddell enabled him at once to identify 
the [Phoca] falklandica with his Fur-Seal” (see Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 1838, vol. ii. p. 91). I do not find it stated whence 
Capt. Weddell procured these specimens; it is only said that 
“he ssconsioed the Fur-Seal in South Georgia, among the 
South Orkneys, and in much greater numbers in the South 
Shetland Islands, which he was the first to discover” (eid. 
p- 84-85); and he expressly states that the only Seal inhabit- 
ing the last-named islands is the Fur-Seal; so that probably 
the specimen he gave to the Edinburgh Museum came from 
either South Georgia or the South Shetlands, | 
I wrote to my friend Mr. Thomas C. Archer, the Director of 
the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Arts, to ask him if he 
would kindly send me a few hairs from one of these Seals ; he 
most readily acceded to my request by return of post, accom- 
panied by an offer to send one of the Seals to the Museum for 
examination, if I wished it. As the hairs alone showed that 
the Seal was not like any other of the South-American Seals 
that I had described in my former paper, being most like 
those of the Seal to which I had referred it, but still appearing 
rather harsher, I most gladly accepted his very kind and 
liberal offer. 
I was much pleased, when the specimen arrived, to find that 
it evidently is the same as my Arctocephalus falklandicus, and 
that my reference to Mr. R. Hamilton’s description and figure 
was correct. ‘The fur in this specimen is considerably darker 
and harsher than in that in the British Museum ; but this may 
arise from the animal having been stuffed and exhibited for 
many years, and, perhaps, collected at a different time of year. 
In every other respect, both as to the form and size of the 
limbs (which are small compared with the size of the body) 
and the distribution of the colours, they agree. 
This animal, which was brought from the Antarctic Ocean, 
may formerly have inhabited the Falkland Islands, and, like 
the Sea-Elephant found there by Pernetty, have been destroyed 
or driven away. The fics Liou iiaas (A. Hooker?) were 
brought from the Antarctic Ocean as well as from the Falk- 
lands. 
If that was the case, it may be the Falkland-Island Seal 
of Pennant and the Phoca Hauvillit that Cuvier described, as 
I formerly believed. ‘There are no other Fur-Seals now 
