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Note on Phoca nigra Pallas, 



In a recent paper on ' The Hair Seals (Family Phocidce) of the North 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea' (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, 1902, 

 pp. 459-499), I suggested (I c., p. 483, foot note) that as Pallas's name 

 PJioca nigra (1811), based on a young fur seal from the Kurile Islands, 

 has priority over Callorhinus curilensis Jordan and Clark (1899), the Kurile 

 Islands species would have to stand as Cattotaria nigra (Pallas). I over- 

 ooked the fact, however, that Phoca nigra Pallas is preoccupied by 

 Phoca grcenlandica var. nigra Kerr (1792). Consequently the Kurile Fur 

 Seal will stand as Oallotaria curilensis (Jordan and Clark). J. A. Allen. 



