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

by John Edward Gray

1. Adult male, with slight mane, called in the sale-catalogue “large-wig.” Fur whitish, with a few intermixed black hairs; under-fur short, reddish. B.M.

2. Adult, without the mane, called in the sale-catalogue “middling.” Fur reddish white, grizzled with scattered black hairs; underside of the body darker, reddish brown; under-fur short, reddish. B.M.

3. Young, about 18 inches long, called in the sale-catalogue “black pup,” from the Cape of Good Hope. Fur black, polished, soft, smooth, without any grey tips, rather browner black beneath; under-fur brown, very sparse; hairs slender, polished, black, with very slender brown bases. B.M.

** The fourth, fifth, and sixth upper grinders with two distinct diverging roots: the fifth in a line with the hinder edge of the zygomatic arch. Euotaria. (America.)

2. Arctocephalus nigrescens. The Southern Fur-Seal.

Arctocephalus nigrescens, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. ; P. Z. S. 1850, pp. 109, 360; Cat. Seals and Whales, p. 52; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones, p. 147.

Arctocephalus (Euotaria) nigrescens, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1866, xviii. p. 236.

Arctocephalus falklandicus, Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 55; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. ii. p. 45.

Otaria (Arctocephalus?) falklandica, Peters, Monatsb. 1866, p. 273.

Otaria (Arctophoca) falklandica, Peters, Monatsb. pp. 371 & 671.