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my remarks are at all diminished. I, therefore, again refer to 
them in justification of my criticisms, and have only to meet cer- 
tain statements and objections urged against them. 
I. Trichophocine, * without under fur ;” vs. Oulophocine, ‘* with 
under fur.” 
I must repeat my original remarks : —‘* We may at once concede 
the applicability of the distinctions based on the pelage, remark- 
ing, however, that the character is not as absolute as might be 
-inferred from the expressions used.” Mr. Allen has reluctantly 
admitted the existence in Trichophocine of sparse hairs homolo- 
gous with the under fur of Oulophocine. Dr. Peters especially 
distinguished the Oulophocine A. antarcticus (O. pusilla Peters) 
by the very thin under fur. ‘Since Dr. Peters wrote, it has been 
[also] ascertained that” the “‘ young, about eighteen inches long” 
has the “under fur brown, very sparse,” and adults, apparently 
supposed by Mr. Allen to belong to the same species, “are so 
nearly destitute of under fur, except just on the crown of the head, 
that [Dr. Gray is] convinced they could not be dressed as fur- 
seals,” and he believes “they are a most distinct species,” which 
he calls A. nivosus.* Dr. Muriet has also shown that in Otaria 
jubata, there “is a reddish underwool, but very sparsely scat- 
tered.” It may, therefore, be thought that I have conceded even 
too much value to the character in question. 
II. “Size large and form robust,” in Trichophocine ; vs. “ size 
smaller; form more slender,” in Oulophocine. 
A distinction appears thus to be plainly made between absolute 
length and comparative stoutness or slenderness. Mr. Allen, at 
least, has not attributed the appearance to tautology. Under the 
heads, then; first, of length; second, of stoutness, the objections 
of Mr. Allen must be met. 
1. Length. As Mr. Allen remarks, “‘slenderness and robustness 
of form usually [but by no means always] involve the head as 
well as the trunk.” Mr. Allen, then, at least, cannot object to the 
consideration of the length of the head as a fair meter and expo- 
nent of the total length of the animal. 
Observations on the Fur-seals of the Antarctic seas and the Cape of Good Hope, 
with the deseription of a new species. By Dr. J. E. Gray. Ann. and Mag., Nat . Hist. 
4th s., 1, 1868, p. 2 
+ Report on er Eared aaia collected in the Falkland Islands. By James Murie. 
Proc. Zool. -» 1869, p. 1 
t See, for example, pt E 
