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ME. r. E. BEDDAED O^' THE 



Judging from the drawings which illustrate Mr. J. W. Clark's paper upon O./orsteri ', 

 it seems to be not at all improbable that this species resembles 0. hooJceri and its allies 

 in the shape and size of the nose ; in the figure - which represents the lateral aspect 

 of the nose in that species, it seems distinctly to want the truncated extremity of that 

 aiO.jubata; in the drawings which the author reproduces from Dr. Hector ^ this is 

 even more marked. If it be permissible to found any deductions upon these sketches, 



Pig- 7. 



X^'v 



Muzzle of Otaria ptmlla. (Front view.) 

 (Two thirds of the size of nature.) 



I would also point out that the considerable length of the ear as depicted therein is 

 perfectly in harmony with what has been said above, 



Mr. Clark's drawings of Otaria ursina * are too small to permit of any comparison 

 with other species in the points indicated above. The figures in the ' Voyage de I'As- 

 trolabe ' of 0. cinerea and 0. australis give no information upon these points. I have 

 also endeavoured to discover from Burmeister's figure of 0. falklandica ^ what evidence 

 can be deduced as to the affinities of that species. The attitude of the animal in the 

 figure, which is three-quarters full face, precludes the possibility of any accurate 

 description of the nose from the lateral aspect : but it seems highly probable, from 



' "On the Eared Seals of the Islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam &c.," P. Z. S. 1S75, p. 050. 

 ' Ihid. p. 664, fig. 4. = Ibid. p. 660, figs. 1 and 2. 



' "Notes on three stufted Specimens of the Sea-Lion of the Pribilov Islands (Otaria ursina)." P. Z. S- 1S7S, 

 pi. XX. p. 371. 



' ' Atlas do la description physique de la Kepuliliquc Argentine,' pis. xii., siii., xiv. 



