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Show 1873.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON NEW-ZEALAND WHALES. 143 of marine mammals mentioned as found in those seas, but in manner as not to be able to be entered in scientific catalogues. There are many more species recorded as inhabiting Australian seas, which no doubt range as far as New Zealand ; but I have only inserted those on the authority of specimens. 1. STENORHYNCHUS LEPTONYX. (The Sea-Leopard.) Stenorhynchus leptonyx, Gray, Catal, of Seals and Whales, p. 16 Webb, Trans. New-Zeal. Inst. ii. p. 29 ; Fraser, I. c. p. 33. Hab. New Zealand ; Port Nicholson (Dr. F. Knox). Skull in British Museum. 2. ARCTOCEPHALUS CINEREUS. (The Grey Australian Fur-Seal.) Otaria cinerea, Peron & Lesueur; Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, t. xii., xiii., xiv.; Hector, Trans. New-Zealand Inst. iv. p. 12, f. 1 (skull), not of Gray, Suppl. Cat. Whales, p. 24. Phoca ursina, Forster, Cook's Voy. t. Otaria forsteri, Lesson, Diet. Cl. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 421. Phoca forsteri, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 232. Hab. New Zealand, Milford Sound (Hector). Skull in Wellington Mus. and Brit. Mus. 3. GYPSOPHOCA SUBTROPICALIS. (The small Fur-Seal.) Gypsophoca subtropicalis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1872. Arctocephalus cinereus, Gray, Suppl. Catal. Seals and Whales, p. Arctocephalus cinereus (young), Hector, Trans. N. Z. Inst. iv. t. xii. f. 2. Hab. New Zealand, Auckland Is. (Hector). Skull, Mus. Wellington ; North Australia (MacGillivray). Specimens in British Museum, from North Australia. 4. NEOBALcENA MARGINATA. Neobaleena marginata, Gray, Catal. Seals and Whales, p. 90; Suppl. p. 40, figs. I & 2 (skull); Hector, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. ii. p. 26, 1869, t. ii. B. figs. 1-4. Caperea antipodarum, Gray, Cat. Whales, p. 101, f. 9 (ear-bone). Hab. New Zealand, island of Kawau, and W . Australia. Skull, Mus. Wellington, Otago. Ear-bone, British Museum. 5. CAPEREA ANTIPODARUM. Caperea antipodarum, Gray, Catal. Seals and Whales, Suppl. p. 45. Hab. New Zealand. Skeleton, Mus. Paris. 6. MACLEAYIUS AUSTRALIENSIS. Macleayius australiensis, Gray, Catal. Seals and Whales, p. 105, f. 10, 11, & p. 371, f. 74, 75 ; P. Z. S. 1873, figs. Hab. New Zealand (Dr. Haast). Skeleton, British Museum. |