of the Falkland Islands and Southern America. 107 



Dr. Bm*meister. In Capt. Abbot's specimen the brain-case 

 from the back edge of the orbit to the occiput is as long as the 

 length of the face from the same edge of the orbit to the end 

 of the nose. In Dr. Burmeister's figure, the face from the 

 same point is much longer than the brain-case. 



III. On the return of the ^ Erebus ' and ' Terror/ the British 

 Museum received from the Lords of the Admiralty several 

 skins of a Hair-Seal from the Falkland Islands and the Ant- 

 arctic Sea, of a brownish-grey colour and paler beneath, which 

 I described under the name of Arctocephalus Hookeri., and 

 figured the skull. Unfortunately we had no very definite 

 habitat for some of the specimens. All the skins were preserved 

 in salt. 



3. PJiocarctos Hookeri^ Gri'ajj 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, xviii. p. 234. 



Fur brown grey, slightly grizzled, pale, nearly white beneath ; 

 hairs short, close-pressed, rather slender, flattened, black, with 

 whitish tips, the tips becoming longer on the under part of 

 the sides ; feet reddish or black ; whiskers black or whitish. 



Young pale yellow, varied with darker irregular patches ; 

 length 18 inches. B.M. 



Arctocephalus Hooheri, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. 14, 15 (skull) ; 



Cat. Seals B. M. p. 45. f. 15 ; P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 109, 360 ; Cat. Seals 



and Whales, B.M. p. 54. 

 Arctocephalus Falklandicus, Burnieister, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. t, 9. 



f. 1,2,3, 4 (skull only). 



Young or albino? entirely cream-coloured, about 2 feet 

 long. 



Eared Seal, Pennant, Quad. ii. p. 278. 



Phocajlavescens, Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. p. 260, t. 73 (from Pennant). 



Hah. Falkland Islands. 



Pennant, in his ' Quadrupeds,' describes an Eared Seal, rather 

 more than 2 feet long, the whole body of which was covered 

 with longish hair of a whitish or cream-colour 5 it was brought 

 from the Straits of Magellan, and preserved in Parkinson's 

 Museum on the south side of Blackfriar's Bridge (see " Eared 

 Seal," Pennant's Quad. ii. p. 278). Dr. Shaw, in his '■ General 

 Zoology,' gave the name of Phoca Jlavescens to this species, 

 and figured it (i. p. 260, t. 73). 



This is very probably the young of the Hair-Seal of the 

 Falklands, described by me as Arctocephalus Hookeri^ which is 

 of a pale-yellowish colour. Pennant does not mention the 

 want of the under-fur. 



Dr. Burmeister observes : — '^ We have in the Museum [at 



