1869.] DR. J. MURIE ON THE SEALS OF THE FALKLANDS, 105 
One of the females died on the 3rd of March 1868, the other 
three days after, namely, on the 6th. One of the males lived a month 
longer, to the 9th April; the last of the four specimens died on Good 
Friday (April 10th). 
The accompanying admeasurements of three of their bodies were 
taken in centimetres by Lecomte immediately after their death. I 
have reduced these to inches and decimals. 
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Length from the muzzle to the tip of the tail......... 340 | 33:2 | 37:71 
Length from the muzzie to the furthest point of 47-7 | 41-3 | 46-7 
the backwardly stretched hind flipper............ } a . 
Greatest length of the pectoral extremity ... ........ 11:3 | 11°7 | 12:9 
Greatest length of the pelvic limb ..................04. 90; 90] 11:0 
The hair on these skins is short, firm, and thick in the pile. 
Beneath is a reddish underwool, but very sparsely scattered. The 
colour of one and all is a very rich dark brown, approaching black 
on the upper parts, and appearing quite so under certain lights when 
the skin is moist. The flippers are black only where bare. Scarcely 
any appreciable difference exists between the males and the females ; 
if any, the males are darkest. 
By way of comparison with the adult male and female of the same 
species (Nos. | and 2), I shall here give the diameters of the soft 
skins of the young ones (Nos. 7 and 10)—all four, adult and young, 
having been pickled in the same manner. No. 7. Greatest length 
(from the muzzle to hinder flipper) 50 inches, to the end of the tail 
403 inches; breadth between the furthest point of the extended 
pectoral members 32 inches. No. 10 gives these consecutive mea- 
surements as 47, 39, and 303 inches. 
11. Large and much worn skull of a very old Sea-lion. 
12. Large and much worn skull, alsoold. This specimen has the 
left ramus of the lower jaw attached. 
13. Another aged cranium, but without mandible. 
14. Another aged cranium, but without mandible. 
15. Another aged cranium, but without mandible. 
The respective proportions of the above venerable cranial remnants 
of the once plentiful race of Falkland-Island Sea-lions may be 
tabulated thus :— 
No. 11. Length 14-8 inches. Greatest (zygomatic) breadth 10:0 inches. 
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The occipito-parietal crests of all are enormously developed, and the 
extra processes in No. 12 are peculiarly prominent. The mandible 
of the latter specimen measures 11°5 inches long, and it is 6°5 inches 
in vertical height at the coronoid process. 
These five skulls, evidently much worn by being rolled on the 
