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the hide and oil only. Mr. Morris informs me he never saw this species 

 at the Auckland Isles. In our Museum there are two stuffed speci- 

 mens of very young animals, and it is much to be regretted that the 

 adults, existing almost at our very doors, should remain unrepresented. 



HAIK SEALS Adults, without any under-fur. 



Genus OTAEIA, Peron. 



Incisors fif, canines n, molars gig, or ^ 34 or 36. 

 Upper outer incisors large, resembling canines ; canines large, of 

 the males extremely so ; teeth of the female altogether much weaker 

 and more sharply pointed than those of the male ; cranium, subject 

 to great individual variation, of the male broad, occipital portion 

 elevated, which, in the very aged becomes immensely developed into 

 crests ; of the female, much narrower, and shallower, almost deficient 

 of any occipital crest ; mandible elongate, strong : limbs large, front feet 

 with rudimentary nails ; hinder, with the three middle nails long, the 

 outer ones rudimentary ; toe-flaps long ; body clothed with hair, with- 

 out any under-fur in the adults ; males much larger than the females, 

 and exhibit greater swimming powers, by possessing flippers proportion- 

 ately much longer and stronger. 



OTARIA STELLEBI, Lesson. The Northern, or Steller's, Sea Lion. 



Synonyms Leo marinus, Steller, 1751. 

 Otaria jubata, Peron, 1816. 



Ota/rio, Stetteri, Lesson, 1828 ; Miiller, 1841; Gray, B.M.C., 

 1850, p. 47, and 1866, p. 60; Sclater, P.Z.S., 1868, 

 p. 190. 

 Arctocephalus monteriensis, Gray, P.Z.S., 1859, andB.M.C., 



1866, p. 49. 



Eumetopias Calif ornianus, Gill, 1866. 



Eumetopias Stelleri, Peters, 1866 ; Gray, A. and M.N.H., 

 1866 ; Allen, Bull, Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. ii. p. 46 ; 

 Gray, B.M.C. ; Suppl. 1871, p. 46. 



General colour : upper portion from pale yellow to reddish-brown, 

 much darker towards the tail ; under portion, dusky reddish-brown, 

 darkest on the hinder part of the abdomen ; frequently assuming a 

 brindled appearance on some parts. Limbs, black-brown. The colour, 

 however, varies much in different individuals irrespective of age 

 or sex. 



The males attain to 13 feet in length, with a weight of from 1,500 to 

 1,800 Ibs. : the females are more slender, and scarcely reach to one- 

 fourth the weight of the male. 



Inhabits the American coast, from California to Behring's Strait, and 

 down the Asiatic coast to the Kurile Islands, 



