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Show 676 MR. J. W. CLARK ON EARED SEALS. [Dec. 7, Straits (Flinders) ; Steeple Rock, off Cape Foulwind, W. coast of Otago (Hector). Pelage of coarse hair. General colour, in young, black when wet, brown when dry; underside of body of a lighter tint than upper; individual hairs pale yellow at base, with light-yellow tips. Dense under-fur all over tbe body of same colour as the base of the hairs. In older animals the hairs are tipped with white, and there is a space of pale yellow above and behind the mouth and round the ear. A dark grey spot beneath the eye. Ears light brown, black within. Digits i, n, and m of the "manus" indicated by prolongations of cartilage ; beyond these the limb is bounded by a wavy edge. Rudimentary nails on first four digits only. " Pes " with hair extending down the digits to the nails. Digits n, in, and iv with nails, which fail to reach free edge of cartilage by about their own length. Snout tapering, obliquely truncated, with nostrils on sloping surface. Teeth, i. ^ , c. ^Ap m. ^-b> = 36. Canines moderate ; in lower jaw compressed, with sharp anterior cutting-edge. Molars small, conical; first four upper with anterior cusp, fifth tricuspid, sixth simple; these two much recurved. Lower molars have all anterior cusp. For form of hinder edge of palate see fig. 7. Length of adult S 7', of adult ? 6£\ 2. OTARIA CINEREA. 1816. Otaria cinerea, Peron, Voyage aux Terres Australes, ii. 77. 1830. Otarie cendree, Quoy & Gaimard, Zoologie du Voyage de l'Astrolabe, i. 89. Hab. Kangaroo Island (Peron) ; Port Western (Quoy $* Gaimard). Pelage grey on back, becoming lighter on muzzle; rusty grey under body. Fur sparse, reddish. Nostrils, judging by the figure of Quoy and Gaimard, as in O. forsteri. Teeth 36, as in O. forsteri; upper and lower molars all with three cusps. Length of S between 7' and 8'. 3. OTARIA ALBICOLLIS. 1816. Otaria albicollis, Peron, Voyage aux Terres Australes, ii. p. 118. 1828. Arctocephalus lobatus, Gray, Spicilegia Zoologica, parti. p, 1, plate iv. fig. 2. 18.30. Otaria australis, Quoy & Gaimard, Zoologie du Voyage de l'Astrolabe, i. 95. ' 1863. Arctocephalus lobatus, Gould, Mammalsof Australia, iii. 49. 1860. Neophoca lobatus, Australian Hair-Seal, Gray, Ann. & Mag. xviii. 231. 1866. Otaria lobata, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. zu Berlin, pp. 276, (168. 1870. Zalophus lobatus, Allen, Bulletin Mus. Harvard, vol. ii. p. 44. |