374 



ME. F. E. BEDDAED ON 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. hookeri and its allies 

 in the shape and size of the nose ; in the figure 2 which represents the lateral aspect 

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

 of 0. jubata ; in the drawings which the author reproduces from Dr. Hector 3 this is 

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



Muzzle of Otaria pusilla. (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 4 are too small to permit of any comparison 

 with other species in the points indicated above. The figures in the ' Voyage de 1' 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 5 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 



1 " On the Eared Seals of the Islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam &e.," P. Z. S. 1875, p. 650. 



2 Ibid. p. 664, fig. 4. 3 Ibid. p. 660, figs. 1 and 2. 



" Notes on three stuffed Specimens of the Sea-Lion of the Pribilov Islands (Otaria ursina)," P. Z. S. 1878, 

 pi. xx. P . 371. 



' Atlas de la description physique de la Eepublique Argentine,' pis. xii., xiii., xiv. 



