2IO ALLEN: mammalia: bibliography. 



Waterhouse, George R., and Charles Darwin. 



The most important original source of information on Patagonian Mammals. In sev- 

 eral cases Darwin's Patagonian specimens became the types of species described by 

 Waterhouse in 1837, and here redescribed and to a large extent figured. Darwin's 

 notes on their habits and ranges are invaluable. 



Weddell, James. 



1825 A j Voyage | towards | the South Pole, | performed in the years 1822-23. | Contain- 

 ing I an examination of the Antarctic Sea, | to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude : | 

 and I A visit to Tierra del Fucgo, | with a particular account of the inhabitants. | To 

 which is added, | much useful information on the coasting navigation of | Cape Horn, 

 and the adjacent lands, | with charts of harbours, &c. | — | By James Weddell, Esq. | 

 Master in the Royal Navy. | — | London: | printed for | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 

 Brown, and Green, ] Paternoster-row. | 1825. — 8vo, pp. i-iv -|- 1-276, with maps, 

 charts and other illustrations. 



Contains much valuable information on the habits of the seals of southern South 

 America and the islands to the southward, and their destruction for commercial pur- 

 poses. Also first description (by Prof Jameson) and figure of Weddell's Seal, which 

 formed the basis of Lesson's Otaria wcdddlii ( = Lcptonychotcs 'ivcddellii). 



Wilson, Edward A. 



1902 Notes on Antarctic Seals, collected during the E.xpedition of the ' Southern Cross ' 

 (Report Nat. Hist. Collections of the 'Southern Cross,' 1902, pp. 67-78, pU. ii-vi). 



On the distribution and habits of Lcptonychotcs zvcddcllii (pp. 69-71, pi. ii), Ogino- 

 rhinus Icptonyx (pp. 71-73, pi. iii), Lobodon carcinopkagiis (pp. 74-76, pll. iv and v), 

 Omviatophoca rossii (pp. 76-78, pi. vi), with colored plates of the animals. 



