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Show 187K] PROF. FLOWER ON PHOCA HISPIDA. 509 which is figured and of which the external characters are described the ' Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes,' tome i. ix. (1819), as the " Phoque commun.'" This latter has since been recognized as belonging to the same species as Nilsson's P. annellata, and as the skull figured by Cuvier as P. hispida. In a later fasciculus of the ' Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes,' it is spoken of as the " Phoque marbre ;" and the figure has been copied in Hamilton's "Amphibious Carnivora" in the 'Naturalist's Library' as that of the "Marbled Seal." The principal synonymy of the species will therefore be as follows :- Neitsek, Crantz, Hist, von Gronland, i. p. 164 (1765). The Rough Seal!, Pennant, Synopsis of Quadrupeds,p.341 (1771). Phoca fostida (not described), Fabricius, in Midler's 'Prodromus Zoologiae Danic_e,' p. viii (1776). P. hispida!, Schreber, Saugethiere, pt. iii. tab. lxxvii. (before 1778). P. hispida!, Erxleben, Systema Regni Animalis, p. 589 (1777). P. hispida!, Gmelin, Systema Naturee (1778). P.fcetida, Fabricius, Fauna Grcenlandica, p. 13 (1780). P. hispida (Fiordseelen), Fabricius, Skriv. af Natur. Selskabet, Copenhagen, vol. i. pt. 2. p. 74 (1790). P.fcetida, Desmarest, Mammalogie, Ency. Method. (1820). P. annellata (Ringlad Skid), Nilsson, Skand. Fauna (1820). Callocephalus hispidus, F. Cuvier, M e m . du Museum, xi. (1824) (skull). C. discolor, F. Cuvier, ibid, (external characters). P. annellata, Thienemann, Reise in Norden Europa's, pt. i. Nat. Bemerk. p. 83, tab. 9-12(1824). P.fcetida, Fischer, Synopsis Mammalium, p. 377 (1829). P. annellata, A.Wagner, Schreber's Saugethiere, pt. viii. (1846). Callocephalus fcetidus, Gray, Cat. Seals Brit. Mus. 1850, p. 23. P.fcetida, Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands (1857). P. annellata, Giebel, Die Saugethiere, p. 137 (1859). P. hispida, Gaimard, Voy. Island. Mammalia, pl. 10. f. 1 & 2. P. annellata, Radde*, Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, i. p. 296, tab. 1-3(1862). Pagomys fcetidus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864), p. 31; Cat. Seals and Whales in Brit. Mus. (1866) p. 23. Although it may still be a matter of opinion which of these names ought to be adopted, it appears to me that, on the whole, preference should be given to hispida, on account of priority; for although the earliest descriptions under this name are very meagre and inaccurate, they are avowedly founded on the Neitsek of Crantz, the appellation by which this Seal is known to the Greenlanders to this day according to Mr. R. Brown f, and are therefore intended for this species, and especially because Fabricius in 1790 definitely adopted the name, * This author gives a detailed description, with figures, of the Seal of Lake Baikal, which appears to be a variety of this species. f " O n the Seals of Greenland," P. Z. S. 1868, p. 414. |
