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LOBODON CARCINCPHAGUS. 
The White Antarctic or Crab-eating Seal. 
Phoca carcinophaga, Jacquinot and Pucheran, Zool. Atlas Voy. Pole Sud., pl. X., Xa. (1842-1853). 
Lobodon carcinophagus, J. H. Gray, Zool. Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Vol. I., Mamm. (1844), pp. 5, 6, Pls. I., 
II.; Barrett Hamilton, Rep. ‘South. Cross’ Coll. (1902), p. 35, ibigue citata ; Brown, Mossman, and 
Pirie, Voy. ‘Scotia,’ (1906), p. 122. 
Lobodon carcinophaya, K. A. Andersson, Wiss. Ergeb. der Schwed. Siidpolar-Exped. Bd. V. 2 (1905), 
. 18-16. 
oe List oF MaTERIAL IN THE ‘ DiscovERY’s’ COLLECTION. 
No. 5, g, adult skin and skuil. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 6, 9, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 8, ¢, adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 9, $, adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 10, ?, adult skin and broken skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 28, 9, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 29, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 30, ?, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 39, 9, adult skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 12, ¢, ad. skin and skull. January, 1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 67° 8. 178° E. 
(Mounted for B. M. Gallery by Rowland Ward.) 
No. 75, ad. skull. McMurdo Sound. 
No. 79, ¢ ad. skull. McMurdo Sound. 
No. 83, ad. skull. One of N. Hanson’s, picked up by me at Cape Adare. 
Also the skeleton of an adult ¢. 
MATERIAL IN THE ‘ MornrING’s’ COLLECTION. 
No. 76, M. 10, ¢, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. RossSea. 67°8.179° E. 
No. 7, M. 20, g, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 15, M. 8, 6, adult skin andskull. January,1903. Packice. RossSea. 66°5.179° W. 
No. 17 (M. 8)*, ?, juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 70°8. 175° E. 
No. 57,M.12, ¢, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 67°8.179° E. 
No. 59,M. 19, g, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 63, M. 7, ?, adult skin and skull. January, 1908. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
No. 61, M.11, ¢, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 69° 8.179° E. 
No. 58, M. 9, $, adult skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 66°8.179° W. 
No. 19 (M.9)*, 9, juv. skin and skull. January, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 70° 8. 175° E. 
No. 20 (M.5), g, juv. skin. December 27,1902. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 68° 8. 176° 54’ E. 
No. 21 (M. 10)*, g, skin and skull. January 1, 1903. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 70°8. 175° E. 
No. 22 (M. 1), 6, adult skin and skull. January. Pack ice. Ross Sea. 
Also the skeleton of an ad. ¢. 
Lobodon has been seen by almost every expedition that has entered the Antarctic 
pack ice, and in all probability it is to be found all round the Antarctic Circle. Stray 
examples have been recorded, as with other similar species, from the most unexpected 
quarters. A specimen, now said to be in the La Plata Museum, was taken near San 
Sidro, north of Buenos Ayres, in lat. 34° 28'S., while other two examples have been 
taken on the coast of Australia, the one at Melbourne, the other at Portland, Victoria, 
in 1897 and 1894 respectively (see “ Nature,” February 5th, 1903, p. 327); these are 
