218 Dr. J. E, Gray on the Fur-Seals 
that name by Parsons in the Phil. Trans. xlvii. t. 6, and 
noticed in Pennant’s ‘Quadrupeds,’ ii. p. 274. Dr. Shaw, 
in his ‘ Zoology,’ i. p. 256, tesiial aboid the name into Phoca longi- 
collis, and copied Parsons’s figure. The name and the form 
of the front feet are enough to show that it is an Hared Seal; 
for the neck of these animals is always long compared with the 
neck of the EKarless Seals or Phocide. Fischer, in his ‘ Syn- 
opsis,’ p. 240, overlooking this character and the description 
of the front feet, considers it the same as the Sea-Leopard of 
Weddell (Phoca Weddelliz) from the Antarctic Ocean, an Ear- 
less Seal. Though the habitat is not given, there can be no 
doubt, when we consider the geographical distribution of the 
Kared Seal, that it must have been received either from the 
southern part of South America or from the Cape of Good 
Hope, as the animals of the Northern Pacific and of Australia 
were not known or brought to England in 1686. As no ac- 
count of the colour of the fur is given, it is impossible to de- 
termine to which of the species inhabiting these countries it 
should be referred. It is most probably the Sea-Lion ( Otaria 
leonina), as that is the animal which is most generally distri- 
buted and commonly brought to England. The sailors some- 
times call it the ‘‘ Long-necked Seal.” 
Dr. J. R. Forster, during his voyage with Cook in 1775, 
observed an Eared Seal at the Cape of Good Hope, which he 
called Phoca ursina, believing it to be the same he had pre- 
viously observed in New Zealand. (See Descript. Animal. 
. 815). 
‘ The sixth volume of the Supplement to Buffon’s Hist. Nat. 
contains an account of the Sea-Bears of the Cape of Good 
Hope, communicated by M. de Pagés (vi. p. 343, 354, 357). 
He described the hairs of the young as blackish, becoming 
silver-grey at the tips as they increase in age. 
M. Cuvier described an Eared Seal received by M. Delalande 
from the Cape, 3 feet 6 inches long. The fur is close, soft, 
woolly at the base, the tips annulated with grey and black, 
giving a general reddish grey-brown tone. The belly is paler, 
and the legs blackish. ‘The whiskers are strong, simple, and 
black. (Oss. Foss. v. 220.) M. Delalande.also sent the skele- 
ton of a young animal and the head of an adult; the skull of 
the latter is figured by Cuvier (Oss. Foss. v. t. 18. f. 5). 
These specimens were described as Otaria Delalandii, Cuvier, 
by M. F. Cuvier (Dict. Se. Nat. xxxix. p. 423); and the skull 
of an aged animal was figured by me as that of Arctocephalus 
~ Delalandii in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ 1859, 
p- 107, t. 69; it is also described in my ‘ Catalogue of Seals 
and Whales in the British Museum,’ p. 52. The species grows 
