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regarded as this species, were described by the Reverend Thomas 

 Brown 153 from the brick clay of Errol and Elie. Another specimen 

 of a fossil seal, presumably Phoca hispida, 15 * was found in the brick 

 clay at Puggiston, near Montrose, Forfar County, Scotland. As 

 shown by Turner 's figures, the angle of the mandible of this fossil form 

 is poorly developed, thus differing slightly from the living representa- 

 tive. More recently, Lonnberg has reported the finding of Phooa 

 hispida in the fresh-water clay 155 and also in the Litorhina clay 156 of 

 Sweden. 



A humerus slightly smaller than that of Erignathus barbatus, but 

 otherwise agreeing with it in every particular, was described by 

 Newton. 1 " This humerus was found in the Cromer Forest beds near 

 Overstrand, Norfolk County, England. Dr. Eugene Robert 158 is also 

 credited with the finding of a fragment of the ilium of a seal, sup- 

 posedly this species, in the shell tufa of Iceland. There is a strong 

 possibility that this specimen belongs to a Recent pbocid. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell collected an ulna of an indeterminable 

 phocid in what was presumably the lower level of the Upper San 

 Pedro beds near La Jolla, San Diego County, California. Miller 159 

 also has reported the occurrence of the remains of seals associated with 

 those of Bison, Eqvus, and certain birds in the Upper San Pedro 

 Pleistocene at San Pedro, California. 



Many of the Pleistocene phocids were imperfectly described and 

 in some instances the original describer did not have skeletons of 

 Recent seals at his disposal for direct comparison. Thus the original 

 describers were at a great disadvantage, and the results of their labors 

 are more or less open to criticism. However, there still remains to 

 be considered a humerus, a radius and an ulna, found in the brick 



153 Brown, T., On the Arctic shell clay of Elie and Errol, viewed in connection 

 ■with our other glacial and more recent deposits. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 

 vol. 24, pt, 3, p. 629. 1867. 



is* Turner, W., On the species of seal found in Scotland in beds of glacial clay. 

 Jour. Anat. and Physiol., vol. 4, p. 260. 1870. 



155 Lonnberg, E., Nagra fynd af subfossila verterbrater. Arkiv for Zoologi 

 utgifvet af K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien i Stockholm, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 9-12. 

 1910. 



150 Lonnberg, E., Om nagra fynd i Litorhina-Lera i Norrkoping 1907. Ibid., 

 vol. 4, no. 22, pp. 3-16, figs, 1-2. 1908. 



157 Newton, E. T., Geological Magazine, n.s. (3), vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 147-148, 

 pi. 5, figs. 2, 2a. 1889. 



iss Eobert, E., Voyages en Islande et au Oroenland, 1835 et 1836. Paris, 

 1840-44. 



153 Miller, L. H., Contributions to the avian palaeontology from the Pacific 

 Coast of North America. Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. G-eol., vol. 7, no. 5, p. 115. 

 1912. 



