SEA-IIONS, AND SEA-BEAES. 



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well developed. Six grinders well behind, and the fifth partly 

 behind, the front edge of the zygomatic arch. The large upper 

 and lower canines are being cut. The front of the lower jaw 

 broad, rounded. (Fig. 14.) 



Otaria leonina, Gray, Cat. Seals, 1850, p. 46, fig. 16 : Cat. Seals 8c 

 Whales, 1866, p. 68, fig. 18. ' r > 5 ' ^ 



Peru {Bridrjes). 47. 4. 20. 13. 



FifT. 14. 



Otaria juhata. 



335 (/. Face and lower jaw of the skull of a male, very similar in size 

 and character to the preceding. 

 Chili {Brandt). 



335 Ic. Skull, probably of a male ; 8| inches long, 4| inches wide. 

 Very like the two preceding in both jaws, but the skull is nar- 

 rower, and the front of the lower jaw not quite so ventricose. 

 Falkland Islands ? 50.6.17.9. 



335/. Skull, probably of a female, from the small size of the lower 

 canines, with the bones equally well knit. Sf inches long, 

 4-| inches wide. Front of the lower jaw not quite so convex. 

 Uab. Unknown [Zool. Soc. Mas.). 



335 r. Skull, the bones equally well knit, 8 inches long, evidently of 

 a female, the teeth being well developed. The canines in both 

 jaws small. Line of grinders 2 inches. Front of lower jaw 

 only slightly convex. (PI. XV.) 

 West coast of Patagonia ( Whitehj). 74. 3. 



All these skulls, of which the habitat is certainly known, come 

 from the west coast of America. The compression of the front of 

 the lower jaw and its small size, especially of the one from Pata- 

 gonia, shows an affinity to Otaria idiom ; but it has the short wide 

 curved lower jaw of Otaria jubala, and may be a species of which 

 the adult is not known. 



