Phoca ursina, _J. R. Forster_. Inhab. Cloudy Bay, New Zealand. This animal is only known from Dr. Forster’s description and figure. Mr. Allen observes, “I can see no evidence of the New-Zealand Fur-Seal (of Forster) being specifically distinct from the Fur-Seal of Australia, _A. cinereus_ (auct.).”—_Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool._ ii. p. 15. At the same time Mr. Allen ventures to remark, “perhaps the _A. cinereus_ and the _A. antarcticus_ are to be referred to the _A. falklandicus_, in which case the habitat of this species is the southern seas generally” (Bull. Comp. Zool. ii. p. 45): but he does not seem to have had specimens of any of the three species; otherwise I do not think he would have ventured upon the observation. Unfortunately, having no skull or other parts of the Lion Seal of the Auckland Islands (the most southern of the New-Zealand group), we are not able to determine whether it is the same species as the Sea-lion of the southern end of the American continent (_Otaria jubata_), or whether it is the Sea-lion of the southern end of the African continent (_Arctocephalus antarcticus_), or the Sea-lion of the Northern Australian Seas (_Neophoca lobata_). 5. Arctocephalus falklandicus. Fur very soft, elastic; hairs very short, exceedingly close, slender at the base, thicker above, with close reddish under-fur nearly as long as the hair; the upper surface pale, nearly uniform grey, minutely punctulated with white; hairs brown, upper half black, with minute white tips. The nose, cheeks, temples, throat, chest, sides, and underside of the body yellowish white. Falkland Seal, _Penn._ _Quad._ ii. Phoca falklandica, _Shaw_, _Gen. Zool._ i. p. 256 (from _Pennant_). Otaria falklandica, _Desm. Mamm._ p. 252 (from _Pennant_; not _Peters_ or _Burmeister_). Otaria Shawii, _Lesson_, _Dict. Class. d’H. N._ xiii. p. 424 (from _Pennant_). Arctocephalus falklandicus, _Gray_, _Cat. Mam. in Brit. Mus., Seals_, p. 42; _Ann. & Mag. N. H._ 1868, i. p. 103. Fur-Seal of Commerce (Otaria falklandica), _Hamilton_, _Ann. & Mag. N. H._ 1838, ii. p. 81, t. 41; _Jardine_, _Nat. Lib._ vi. p. 271, t. 25 (not _Peters_). Otarie de Péron, _Blainville_, _Journ. de Physique_, xci. p. 298; _Cuvier_, _Oss. Fossiles_, v. p. 220. Otaria Houvillii, _Lesson_, _Dict. Class. d’H. N._ xiii. 425. Phoca Houvillii, _Fischer_, _Syn. Mam._ p. 154. These three names are all from the same animal. Inhab. Falkland Islands (_Abbott_; _B.M._); New Georgia.