18/8.] MR. J. W. CL.Ui.Iv ON OTARIA URSINA. 3/1 



As might be expected, the subject of the present paper has all 

 the habits of its near ally P. stewarti, for which, indeed, I mistook 

 it on the wing. When shot it was wending its way very adroitly 

 through dense nettle-jungle {Girandinia heterophylla), climbing up 

 and down the stalks in search of mosquitoes and other insect food. 

 The allied species to P. policephala, viz. P. stewarti and P. cinereo- 

 capilla, do not apparently occur in Kumaon. 



In concluding my remarks on the subject, I am glad to be able to 

 add that the Marquis of Tweeddale concurs with me in considering 

 the Prinia new to science. The Marquis writing to me respecting 

 this species, gives his opinion in the following terms, which by his 

 permission, I here transcribe : — " Your Prinia seems to be a good 

 and distinct species." 



7. Notes on three stuffed Specimens of the Sea-lion of the 

 Pribilov Islands (Otaria ursina). By J. W. Clark, 

 M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Keceived March 19, 1878.] 

 (Plate XX.) 



The specimens I have the pleasure of exhibiting this evening 

 were sent to the Museum of the University of Cambridge in October 

 1877, by the Alaska Commercial Company. Some time before that 

 date the Company had most obligingly acceded to my request that 

 they would endeavour to obtain for me some specimens of this Sea- 

 lion, which is the most abundant of the two species found upon the 

 islands ceded to them for trading-purposes by the Government of the 

 United States, the other being Steller's Sea-lion (Otaria stelleri). 



The " set of Seals," as the Secretary's letter terms them, consists 

 of a male, a female, and a pup, from St. Paul's Island, Alaska. Those 

 who have read Elliott's 'Report' l will remember that this is the 

 island which is most thickly peopled by this species of Otaria and 

 yields the greatest number of skins in each year. The skull and 

 the bones of the arm and leg accompanied each skeleton ; so that 

 the age of the animal can be approximately ascertained. From the 

 condition of those portions of the skeleton, and from the size of the 

 animals as compared with the measurements given in the work 

 above quoted and in Allen's * Monograph' 3 (pp. 73-108), it is clear 

 that they are not full-grown. This is to be regretted, as the oppor- 

 tunity so seldom occurs of obtaining an Otaria in that condition : and 

 from the vast numbers that exist on the Prybilov Islands, I had 

 hoped that the specimens, when they arrived, would prove to be 

 adult. Notwithstanding this drawback, however, they are a most 

 interesting group, and illustrate extremely well the difference in 



1 Eeport on the Prybilov Group or Seal Islands of Alaska. By Henry W. 

 Elliott, 4to. Washington, 1873. 



1 " On the Eared Seals (Otariadse). By J. A. Allen," Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool. 

 Harvard College, Cambridge, vol. ii. p. 1. 



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