1875.) MR. J. W. CLARK ON EARED SEALS. 659 
I now proceed to attempt to reconcile these notices with the 
recorded species: and I will take first the Fur-Seal of New Zealand, 
the true name for which I shall show to be Of¢aria forsteri. 
Dr. Hector’s notes (taken when the specimens exhibited were 
killed) are as follows :— 
1874. “On January 6, when on board the New-Zealand Govern- 
ment gun-boat ‘ Lima,’ I got eleven specimens, young and old, on the 
group of rocks called ‘the Steeples,’ off Cape Foulwind, west coast 
of Nelson. None of the specimens are very old; and the females 
are suckling young of a few weeks age. Two males and two 
females, supposed to bein the third year, were selected for measure- 
ment and preservation, and also several young ones. The skeleton 
of one of the males is now in the British Museum, the skull and 
skin of one female, and the nose of specimen A. Two young 
specimens, also in spirit, and one stuffed and set up (but this latter 
was obtained at ‘ the Snares’ *) have also been placed in the British 
Museum.” 
A. Male (fig. 1, p. 660). Skeleton in British Museum. 
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“ Snout conical, produced, nose overhanging the nostrils, which 
are inferior, valvular, and: separated by a deep sulcus. About 20 
white bristles. 
“Colour on back—long hairs black and white, mixed with 
lighter brown under-fur. Beneath, hair black, short, with a dark 
brown under-fur. Nose and flippers naked and jet-black. 
«‘ Anterior flippers with first finger longest : five fingers, ail with 
deeply immersed rudimentary nails; internal finger half the length 
of the external. Posterior flippers, external finger slightly the 
longest, all produced; three middle digits with strong black nails 
* A cluster of seven craggy islands, south-west of New Zealand, in lat. 48° 3’, 
long. 166° 20', discovered in 1791 by Vancouver, and so named, “as being very 
likely to draw the unguarded mariner into alarming difficulties” (Vancouver's 
Voyage, i. p. 71: 4to, London, 1798). 
