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range: "All the Arctic shore, Bering Sea, and the Aleutian Is- 

 lands." There is no evidence of its presence in the Aleutians. 

 Allen (1880, p. 641) refers to Pallas and Steller as recording it 

 from Kamchatka, and he says that Tcmminck mentions having 

 examined three skins obtained at Sitka. On Temminck's record, 

 Nelson (1887, p. 263) expresses serious doubt: "considering 

 that we have no subsequent record of its capture in that now 

 well-known region, and that it is unknown from the Aleutian 

 Islands and is of such extreme rarity in Bering Sea, that record 

 can be safely considered as more than doubtful." 



I agree with Nelson's opinion without any hesitation. In fact, 

 Doutt (1942, p. 90), considering the complete lack of specimens 

 from the western Arctic and Bering Sea, has some doubt about 

 it being circumpolar in distribution, although Nelson described 

 the skin of a young individual from Cape Prince of Wales, and 

 described several individuals that were seen at close range in 

 the pack ice near Wrangel and Herald Islands. 



Histriophoca fasciata: Ribbon Seal 



Russian: Kre-lat-ah and Mandar-ka (Buxton) 



This is a rare and little-known seal, but apparently it is quite 

 migratory, and there is a possibility that it has been found among 

 the Aleutian Islands. Allen (1880, p. 681) refers to Pallas as 

 recording the range as far south as the Kurile Islands, and re- 

 fers to Von Schrenck as stating that Wosnessenski obtained 

 specimens that had been killed on the east coast of Kamchatka. 

 Allen also states that Von Schrenck had seen skins of these seals 

 that had been killed on the southern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. 

 Allen further states that Dall had obtained specimens from Cape 

 Romanzoff, and he quotes Scammon as follows: "It is found 

 upon the coast of Alaska, bordering the Behring Sea, and the 

 natives of Ounalaska recognize it as an occasional visitor to the 

 Aleutian Islands." 



Erignathus barbatus: Bearded Seal 

 Erignathus barbatus nauticus 



Russian, (Siberia) : Nerpah 



Russian, Kamchatka and Marcona: Lock-tock (Buxton) 



Nelson (1887, p. 260) says— 



The Bearded Seal is rather common along the Alaskan coast of Bering 

 Sea south to Bristol Bay, but it is not found on the Aleutian Islands nor 

 about the Fur-Seal group, except possibly as a winter visitor with the ice- 

 pack about the latter islands. On the coast south of Cape Vancouver they 

 are far less common than north of that point. 



