Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

by John Edward Gray

Fur brown-grey, slightly grizzled, pale, nearly white beneath; hairs short, close-pressed, rather slender, flattened, black, with whitish tips, the tips becoming longer on the under part of the sides; feet reddish or black; whiskers black or whitish.

Young pale yellow, varied with darker irregular patches; length 18 inches. B.M.

Arctocephalus Hookeri, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. 14, 15 (skull); Cat. Seals B. M. p. 45. f. 15; P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 109, 360, Cat. Seals and Whales B. M. pp. 53, 54.

Arctocephalus falklandicus, Burmeister, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. t. 9. f. 1, 2, 3, 4 (skull only).

Otaria (Phocarctos) Hookeri, Peters, Monatsb. 1866, pp. 269 & 671.

Phocartos Hookeri, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1866, vol. xviii. p. 234 (the Hair-Seal of the sealers).

Otaria jubata (part.), Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. ii. p. 45.

Young or albino? entirely cream-coloured, about 2 feet long.

Eared Seal, Pennant, Quad. ii. p. 278.