of the Falkland Islands and Southern America. 109 



islands at the mouth of the river," the Islas de los Lobos (Islands 

 of Sea-wolves). "Thej not imfrequently come up as far as 

 Buenos Ayres, where I have twice seen full-grown living 

 specimens oi A. falklandicus. Both of these were, I believe, 

 carried to France, . . . They were kept here for a long time in 

 a large basin of fresh water ; and I was one of the daily visitors 

 to these very interesting animals. 



" We have in the Museum a young half-grown specimen, 

 nearly 3 feet in length." He figures the skull of this specimen, 

 which is evidently the skull of a Phocarctos Hookeri, 



The two living specimens mentioned are doubtless those 

 which Leconte brought to Em'ope. 



I have, since this paper was commenced, received the skull 

 of the specimen that died in the Gardens, and find that it is a 

 half-grown, rather stunted Otaria jubata, and may be thus 

 described : — 



Fur dark brown; cheeks, temples, and sides of forehead black; 

 neck greyish brown ; back of the neck yellow brown ; belly 

 dusky black. Hairs flat, tapering, dark brown, yellow, and 

 whitish intermixed, without any under-fm*. 



The following synonyms may be added to those of the spe- 

 cies in the ' Catalogue of Seals and Whales : — 

 Sea-Bear, Illustrated London News ; Boy's Own Book. 

 Otaria jnbata, Label in Zool. Gardens, I860. 

 Otaria Hookeri^ Sclater, P. Z. S. 186G, p. 80 (figure, young male). 

 Arctocephalm falklandicus, Burmeister, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1866 (not skuU), 



Hah. Cape Horn (Leconte). Skin and skeleton, B.M. 



This animal has the harsh fur without any under-fur of 

 Phocarctos Hooheri) but it entirely differs from that animal in 

 the colom- of the fur. This cannot arise from the greater age 

 of the animal, as it is not nearly so large as the half-grown 

 P. Hookeri in the British Museum. 



In the dark blackish-brown colour of the fur and the pale- 

 brown colour of the nape, and in the absence of the under-fur, 

 this Seal resembles the adult Neophoca lohata from Australia ; 

 but in that species the pale colour extends all over the crown, 

 while in the young male Otaria jvhata there are only a few 

 paler scattered hairs on the middle of the crown and nose. 



V. I must refer to another species of Sea-Bear which has 

 been mixed up with the Fur-Seal of the Falkland Islands. 



In the ' Monatsbericht,' May 1866, p. 276, t. 2. a^hf^ Dr. Peters 

 described and figured with considerable detail a skull of a Sea- 

 Bear (sent to the Berlin Museum by Dr.Philippi, who obtained 

 it at Juan Fernandez Island) under the name of Otaria Phi- 

 lippic forming for it a subgenus which he calls Arctophoca. 



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