Vor. III] GRINNELL—MAMMALS OF CALIFORNIA 301 
Type locality—Guadalupe Island, off Lower California, 
Mexico. 
Synonyms—Callorhinus ursinus, part; Northern Fur Seal, 
part. 
Range—With little doubt fur seals formerly bred along the 
coast and among the islands of southern California (Scammon, 
Marine Mammals, 1874, p. 154; Stephens, Calif. Mammals, 
1906, p. 206). The geographical probabilities strongly favor 
their identity with the southern form possibly still in existence 
off Lower California, rather than with the fur seal breeding 
on the Pribilof Islands, in Bering Sea. 
Family PHOCIDAE 
Phoca richardi geronimensis Allen 
California Harbor Seal 
Original description—Phoca richardi geronimensis Allen, 
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 16, December 12, 1902, pp. 493, 
495, 496. 
Type locality—San Geronimo Island, Lower California. 
Synonyms—Phoca pealei; Phoca richardi; Phoca vitulina; 
San Geronimo Harbor Seal. 
Range—Seacoast, islands, and bays, from the Mexican to 
the Oregon lines. It is probable that the harbor seals of the 
northern coast district will be found to be in characters nearest 
Phoca richardi richardi. 
Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill 
Northern Elephant Seal 
Original description—“Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill, 
Procn CiicdsomaAcad Scho ln LSO0n p: So. 
Type locality—‘Saint Bartholomew’s Bay, Lower Califor- 
nia, Mexico.”’ 
Synonyms—Mirounga angustirostris; Sea Elephant. — 
Range—Formerly north along the seacoast as far as Point 
Reyes, Marin County (Scammon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1869, p. 61) ; occurred in numbers at Santa Barbara Island as 
late as 1852 (Scammon, Marine Mammals, 1874, p. 118); 
