20 E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



The third was shot in the Moraine Fjord by some of the crew of the whaling 

 steamer the 16th of April 1905. The skin was presented to the Zool. Museum of 

 Kristiania. It was a young female. 



The fourth was a young male shot by Sorling in the beginning of August. 

 It lay on the beach at the »Leopard-point» in Boiler Harbour. The multitude of 

 drifting ice did not permit Sorling to bring it to the factory the same day and 

 the following day it had been carried off by the ice. 



The fifth was found by the crew of the steamer »Rolf» in the Moraine Fjord 

 the It of Sept. It was a young female. 



The sixth, also a young female, was killed by the crew of a Chilenian sealing 

 vessel in Cumberland Bay. 



The same crew had some time before, in the beginning of Sept., in Possession 

 Bay killed another specimen of WeddelFs seal the skin of which Sorling saw. There 

 were thus in all with certainty observed 7 specimens oii South Georgia during the 

 winter 1905. 



The following measurements of a just killed Weddells seal were taken by 



SORLING: 



ef juv. w/i 04. 



Distance from snont to tip of täil 2,oo ni. 



Distance from snout to hind end of liind-flippei/s 2,25 in. 



Distance from snout to auterior börder of axilla 0,5 7 ni. 



Interorbital breadth 9,i cm. 



Distance from snout to auterior corner of eye 9,3 cm. 



Distance from auterior corner of eye to ear-opening 7, g cm. 



Greatest breadth of snout ■ 10, i cm. 



Distance from snout to corner of moutli 11,5 cm. 



Distance from tip of lower jaw to corner of moutli 8,8 cm. 



Breadth of head at lund-margin of eyes 13,3 cm. 



Breadth of head at ear-opeuings 18,3 cm. 



Circuinference of body just beliind fore-flippers 1,38 m. 



Circumference at root of tail , 0,5 5 m. 



WeddelFs seal seems to feed exclusively on fish. The norwegian sailors there- 

 fore called it »Fiskessel», that is »Fish-seal». 



Lobodon carcinophagns (Jaqu. & Puchér.) 1842-53. 



syn: Phoca carcinoplmga Jaqu. & Pucher. 1842 — 53. 

 Lobodon carcinoplmga Gray 1844. 

 Stenorhynchus serridens Owen 1843. 

 Stenorhynchus carcinophagns Flower & Garson 1884. 



In April Sorling saw a single specimen of seal which was uniformly »light 

 greyish, sandy brown without any spöts». It had hauled up on the sandy beach of 

 the »Leopard-point». When Sorling approached, it hurried into the water without 

 opening its moutli or behaving as the Leopard-seals usually do. It might therefore 

 be possible that this was a »Crab-eater», but, if such was the case, it was the only 



