MAMMALIA. 



cubbs of the first year, sometimes in a Hollow Tree, a Hollow Log, 

 under the Root of a Tree, cleft of a Rock. Dog scents them & 

 Barks, then they come out. But if the snow be deep they won't 

 stir. Kill them, nothing in their gutts but slime ; they will put fire in 

 the Hole of a Tree then the Bear will come Thundering out whether 

 they are asleep or only mope, for they easily wake. Bear bring 

 forth but once in 3 years. Suckle their young." 



PINNIPEDIA. Family 



PHOCA VITULINA 



Harbor Seal. 



Mention of the occurrence of a Seal, in a treatise upon the Fauna 

 of the Adirondack region, will doubtless occasion surprise in the 

 minds of the majority of my readers. It must be remembered, how- 

 ever, that the eastern limit of this area embraces a portion of Lake 

 Champlain, and that the waters of this beautiful lake are put in di- 

 rect communication with those of the St. Lawrence, below Montreal, 

 by its outlet, the River Richelieu. 



The Harbor Seal breeds regularly both in the Gulf and River of 

 St. Lawrence, and I have seen numbers of them, in July, as far up 

 the River as the Saguenay, and they are still common even within 

 fifty miles of Quebec. 



Zadock Thompson has recorded the capture of two of them on 

 Lake Champlain. He says : " While several persons were skating 

 upon the ice on Lake Champlain, a little south of Burlington, in Feb- 

 ruary, 1810, they discovered a living seal in a wild state, which had 

 found its way through a crack and was crawling upon the ice. They 

 took off their skates, with which they attacked and killed it, and then 

 drew it to the shore. It is said to have been 45 feet long. It must 

 have reached our lake by way of the St. Lawrence and Richelieu; 



