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ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS. 



After Halicyon Eichardi (page 30), add : — 



Halicyon? Californica. 



A Seal without ears, with large, pale rings, which are more or less 

 confluent. 



Inhab. California. 



This Seal is thus described by Hutching. 



The Hair Seal (Phoea jubata), Bidchmg, Scenes of Wonder and Curv- 

 odiy in California, 189, fig. 



" Inhab. California, near St. Francisco. Tarallone Islands. 



" There are several kinds of Seal that pay a short visit to the 

 Tarallone Islands at different seasons of the year, one of the most 

 beautiful of which is the Hair Seal of the Pacific (P. jiAata). This 

 Seal, with which the coast of California abounds, is by no means 

 rare, as almost all the coasts in high southern and northern lati- 

 tudes abound with it " (p. 189). It has no affinity to the Phoca 

 juhata of the Systematic Catalogue. 



TricliecTis Eosmarus (p. 36). 



Add to description of Morse : — 



The Morse sits with its hind limbs bent foi-ward, resting on its 

 fore hmbs with their ends bent outwards. The animal is repre- 

 sented in the proper attitude in old Danish plates, and ia Cook's 

 ' Voyage.' Buffon, misled probably by some animal -preserver, repre- 

 sents the body much elongated, and with the hind legs extended 

 backward on the sides of the tail, like the general run of earless Seals. 

 (See Hist. Nat. xiii. t. 54.) The Morse, which is an earless Seal, in 

 this respect differs from the rest of the group, sits in the same manner 

 as the eared Seals of the family Arctoeephalina (p. 44), and in this 

 habit seems to form a link between the two groups of Seals. 



Cystophora AntiUaram (page 43). 



Seal, SilFs Jamaica Almanack, 1843. 



The Pedro Seal (Phoca Wilkianus), Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 

 307, 308. 

 Inhab. Jamaica. Pedro Kays (WiVcie, 1846). 

 " Cutting-teeth |, canines p|, grinders |7|=32. The molars are 

 five-lobed, and conical. Bristles numerous, strong, very flexible, of a 



