49 2 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XVI, 



[Phoca] richardsi SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1873, 556, footnote (emendation 

 of name). ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. XVI, 1902, 225 (Alaska 

 Peninsula) . 



Phoca pealii GILL, Proc. Essex Inst. V, 1866, 13 ("California and 

 Oregon"). Not Phoca pealii Gill, ibid., p. 4, footnote = Halichcerus an- 

 tarcticus Peale. 



Phoca pealii ? SCAMMON, Marine Mamm. 1874, 164, pi. xxii, animal. 



Phoca vitulina CLARK, P. Z. S. 1873, 556 (on Gray's type specimen 

 of Halicyon richardii) . ALLEN, Hist. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 1880, 559, in 

 part (Pacific Coast references only) . ELLIOTT, Seal Islands of Alaska, 

 1882, 28, pi. iv, in part (Pribilof Islands). NELSON & TRUE, Rep. Nat. 

 Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 26 4 in P art ( St - Michaels, mainly). 



Phoca vitulina var. largha NORDQUIST, Vega-Exped. Vetensk. lakt. 

 II, 1883, 102 (reference to skulls from Unalashka in the St. Petersburg 

 Zoological Museum). 



Phoca largha ? TRUE, in Jordan's Rep. Fur-Seal Islands, Part III, 1899, 

 351 (Pribilof Islands). 



The only specimens available for examination from any- 

 where near the type locality are two skulls from Puget 

 Sound (Nat. Mus. Nos. 6535 and 6159), one of them badly 

 broken, and another (Nat. Mus. No. 6486) from " Washington 

 Territory," the two latter quite young, and all unmarked as 

 to sex. Judging by the size and shape of the teeth the two 

 young specimens are both females, and agree closely in every 

 respect with specimens from the New England coast of corres- 

 ponding age and known to be females, except in the single 

 character of the greater posterior extension of the -premaxillae 

 so as to touch the nasals. 



Another skull from Yakutat Bay, Alaska (Nat. Mus. No. 

 98139), slightly older and unmarked for sex, is also similar; 

 the dentition is weak but the lower molar is distinctly 4- 

 cusped. A young skull from Kenai, Alaska (Nat. Mus. No. 

 9480) is like the two skulls from the Puget Sound region. An- 

 other skull from Adakh Island, Alaska (Nat. Mus. No. 14399), 

 is very young and probably a male, pm2 and pm3, both above 

 and below, being set very obliquely, and the lower molar 

 being strongly 4-cusped. 



Next in geographical sequence are four very young skulls 

 from St. Michaels, Alaska (Nat. Mus. Nos. 21474-21477). 

 Three of them appear to be females, the dentition being light 



