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known of a dark-grey colour, with a whitish underside, that I 
have seen. vee | 
The A. falklandicus is very like the Fur-Seal from Australia 
(A. cinereus) in the length of the under-fur as compared with 
the length of the hairs, and also in the colour of the under- 
fur and hair; but the fur is much softer, and its general colour 
is much darker, both above and below. 
M. de Buffon describes a small Eared Seal, which he calls 
a “second Phoque”’ (vol. xiii. p. 341, t. 43, where it is named 
“le petit Phoque”’), which he was assured came from India, 
but very probably came from the Levant; and he considers it 
adult, because it has all its teeth. It is only one-fifth of the size 
of the Seal of the European seas (Hist. Nat. xii. p. 344). He 
further speaks of it as “le petit Phoque noir des Indes et du 
Leyant” (p. 345). It is ia te a young Hared Seal. The 
figure is probably from the skin, with the bones of the toes 
and jaws, presented to the cabinet by M. Mauduit (mentioned 
at F 433. n. 1273), and said to have come from India. 
The specimen Buffon figured, then being in the Paris Mu- 
seum, was thus described by Cuvier (Oss. Foss. v. p. 220) :-— 
“ Cet animal a deux pieds de long; ses oreilles sont grandes 
et pointues ; son pelage est fourré, luisant, d’un brun noir trés- 
foncé et a sa nuance blanchatre. Le ventre seul est brun jau- 
natre.” The teeth show that it is young. 
The figure and description of the Petit Phoque of Buffon 
have had the following names given to them :— 
Little Seal by Pennant and Shaw. 
Phoca pusilla, Schreber, Siugeth. 314. 
Phoca parva, Bodd. Elench. 78. 
Otaria pusilla, Desm. N. Dict. 
Otaria Peronit, Desm. Mamm. 
_ Fischer, in his ‘ Synopsis,’ under Phoca pusilla, p. 252, gives 
the Cape of Good Hope and Rotteness Island, on the coast of 
Raseralin, as the habitat of the species. 
The description of Cuvier much more nearly fits that of the 
oung Arctocephalus nigrescens from the Falkland Islands. 
The fur of the young Cape Seal is dark, black above and be- 
low ; the hairs are slender, and brown (not whitish) at the 
base; and the underside is not yellowish brown; so that it is 
very doubtful if it is the young of the Cape Seal. 
Dr. Peters, believing Buffon’s specimen to be a young Cape 
Seal, changed the name of Delalandii to pusilla. 
There formerly existed in the Museum of the Royal Society 
an Eared Seal without any habitat; it is called the Long-necked 
Seal in Grew’s ‘ Rarities,’ p. 95, described and figured under 
