SEA-LIONS, AND SEA-BEARS, '65 



(not Gray, f^iippl.) ; Hector, New-Zeal. InatiUde, iv. t. xii. tig. 1, 

 p. 19o (skiill) ; Oray, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 656, figs. 1 & 2 (skull, mis- 

 named A. niyresceiis). 



Huh. Port We.stern, N. H. (Qtioy) ; Dusky Bay, New Zealand 

 ( I'orster). 



1484c. Skull of male ; nose broken, some teeth, lost. (PL XXVI.) 

 Arctooephalus nigresceus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1872 p. 6 j6 (fig., but not 

 description). 

 New Zealand. 72. 6. 25. 1. Presented by Dr. Hector. 



The figures of the skulls in the P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 656, 657, are 

 wrongly named. Figs. 1 & 2, said to be A. nigresceus, Falkland 

 Islands, should be A. cinereus. New Zealand ; and figs. 3 & 4, said 

 to be A. cmereiis, New Zealand, should be A. nigresce}is, Falkland 

 Islands. The skull of E. einerea, from New Zealand, is 9i inches 

 long, Scinches wide at the zygoma ; lower jaw 5 inches long, 3 inches 

 broad at the angle. The upper cutting-teeth, occupying 1 inch, very 

 similar to those of E. iiir/resc^ns. The canine teeth large, broad at 

 the base, the outer sides of the upper ones 2| inches apart. The 

 grinders of the upper jaw with broad square roots, the three hinder 

 not so completely divided as in the other two species ; the series 

 2| inches long. The palate with the suture between the pter}fgoid 

 and maxillar}' bones broad in front, and rather in front of the hinder 

 edge of the front of the zygomatic arch. The lower jaw elongate, 

 6g inches long, not nearly so wide apart at the angles as the length 

 from the angle to the gonyx. The series of lower grinders shorter 

 than the series of those of E. nigrescetis, and with shorter crowns. 

 The southern Sea-bear was observed in Cloudy Bay, in 1773, in 

 Cook's second voyage, where an account of it is given. Several 

 beautiful, drawings of the animal were made for Sir Joseph Banks, 

 which are now with the rest of his drawings in the Botanical 

 Department in the British Museum. Dr. J. 11. Forster wrote a 

 description of the animal, which was published by the Bei'lin Academy 

 in an octavo volume under the title of ' Forster's Descriptio Ani- 

 malium ' (p. 64). Forster sent copies of the figures and notes 

 of the animal to Buffon, which were engraved and the notes pub- 

 lished in the sixth volume of the ' Supplement ' of his ' Natural 

 History' (p. 336, tab. xlvii.) under the name Ours niarin, under 

 which name Buftbn combined the Arctic and Antarctic Sea-bears. 

 Lesson, in his compilation on Seals, called the species Otaria 

 Forsteri (Diction. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xiii. p. 421 ) ; and Fischer 

 notices it in his ' Synopsis ' as Phoca Forsteri (p. 232), and, curiously 

 enough, adds, "An non potius generi Enhydris adnumeranda ?" 

 Not being able to see any specimen or skull of this species so 

 that I could identify it with my species in the British Museum, and 

 Forster's description of the skull and teeth only showing that it was a 

 species of Arctoccjnhalus, I recorded it under the name ArciocejAahis 

 Forsteri iu the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' for 1869 

 (iv. p. 269), and in the ' Supplement to the Catalogue of Seals and 

 Whales,' published in 1871. 



