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in tlie most northerly portion of Baffin's Bay. They are prin- 

 cipally killed in the district of Julianshaab, and then almost 

 solely in the most southern part, on the outterniost islands, from 

 about the 20th of May to the last of June ; but in this short 

 time they supply a great portion of the food of the natives and 

 form a third of the colony's yearly production. In the begin- 

 ning of July the Klapmyds leaves, but returns in August, 

 when it is much emaciated. Then begins what the Danes in 

 Greenland call the maigre Klapmydse fangst, or the i lean- 

 Klapniyds-catching', which lasts from three to four weeks. 

 Very seldom is a Klapmyds to be got at other places, and espe- 

 cially at other times. The natives call a Klapmyds found 

 single up a fjord by the name of Nerimartont^ the meaning of 

 which is ' gone after food'. They regularly frequent some small 

 islands not far from Julianshaab, where a good number are 

 caught. After this they go further north, but are lost sight of, 

 and it is not known where they go to (Rink, 7. c.). Those seen 

 in North Greenland are mere stragglers, wandering from the 

 herd, and are not a continuation of the migrating flocks. 

 Johannes (a very knowing man of Jakobshavu) informed me 

 that generally about the 12th of July a few are killed in Ja- 

 kobshavu Bay (lat. 69 13' N.). It is more pelagic in its habits 

 than the other Seals, with the exception of the Saddleback."* 



I conclude the account of the geographical distribution of 

 the Hooded Seal in Baffin's Bay with the following from Mr. 

 Kuinlien's account : 



"The bladder-nose appears to be very rare in the upper 

 Cumberland waters. One specimen was procured at Annanac- 

 took in autumn, the only one I saw. The Eskimo had no name 

 for it, and said they had not seen it before. I afterward 

 learned that they are occasionally taken about the Kikkerton 

 Islands in spring and autumn. I found their remains in the 

 old kitcheumiddens at Kingwah. A good many individuals 

 were noticed among the pack-ice in Davis's Straits in July." t 



On the European coast this species is said to be of not very 

 common occurrence on the northern coast of Norway, but more 

 to the southward only stragglers appear to have been met 

 with.f In March and April, according to Malmgreu, the,y are 



*Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1868, pp. 436, 437; Man. Nat. Hist., etc., Green- 

 land, Mani., pp. C5, 66. tBull. U. S. Nat. Mus.,No. 15, 1879, p. 64. 



\ Says Blasius, writing in 1857, "An den siidlichen Kiistenlanderu der 

 Nordsee batman sie bis jetzt uochnicht gesehen." Naturgesch. der Saugeth. 

 Deutschlands, p. 260. 



