go PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



LeptonycJwtes weddellii Allen, N. Amer. Pinnipeds, 1880, 467. — Turner, 



Zool. Challenger Exp., pt. Ixviii, 1888, 20. Betsey Cove, Kergue- 



len. — Cook, First Antarctic Night, 1901, 265, 281, 283, animal, from 



photographs. — Albert, Act. Soc. scient. du Chili, XI, Dec, 1901, 221 



(casual at Juan Fernandez and Mocha Islands). — Barrett-Hamilton, 



Rep. Southern Cross Coll., 1902, 17-23, monographic. — Wilson, 



ibid., 69-71, distribution and habits. 



P\oecilophoca\ weddeUi Flower & Lydekker, Mam. Liv. and Ext., 1891, 605. 



Leptonyx leopardinus Wagner, Schreber's Saug. Suppl., VII, 1846, 38. 



Stenorhynchus leptonyx Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist, etc., 1879 (in 



error, apud Barrett-Hamilton). Kerguelen Island. 

 Leopardine Seal, Jameson, in Weddell's Voy. towards the South Pole, 



1823, 23, 134. 

 Phoca leopardina Hamilton, Amphib. Carn. in Jardine's Nat. Library, 

 VI, 1839, 183, and on pi. xii and in table of contents. Attributed 

 to Jameson and = Leopardine Seal of Jameson, as above. 

 This species is unrepresented in the material at present available for 

 examination from Patagonia, but Hatcher speaks of it as common off the 

 coast at Corriken Aike. The earliest record of its occurrence in Pata- 

 gonia is Gray's reference in 1843 to the specimens obtained by Capt. 

 Fitzroy at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River, on the east coast of Pata- 

 gonia in his "List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum" 

 (1843, p. 102), and in the "Zoology of the Erebus and Terror" (Mamm., 

 1844, p. 7, and figured in plates v and vi). 



Mr. Hatcher thus refers to its presence in numbers off Corriken 

 Aike in September and October, 1896: "On quiet days, when the tides 

 were running at their highest, the waters immediately fronting the 

 shingle-covered beach were frequented by considerable numbers of Lep- 

 tonyx iveddeli, the common haired seal or sea leopard of this region. 

 Occasionally these animals would approach quite near the beach, just 

 beneath where we were engaged with our fossils, and thrusting their heads 

 far out of the water remain stationary for a moment, apparently intent on 

 ascertaining the meaning of our presence." (Narrative, p. 77.) 



According to Albert (/. c), a specimen was taken at Juan Fernandes 

 Island in 1865, and the species is seen every two or three years about 

 Mocha Island, coast of Chili. 



Mr. W^ilson (/. r., p. 69) states that Weddell's Seal is a shore seal, and 



