PINNIPEDIA: PHOCIDAE 785 



Type Locality. — Arctic regions. Range. — North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, 

 within historic times as far south as Magdalen Islands in Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 Cape Breton, Sable Island off southern Nova Scotia, and into Gulf of Maine 

 (G. M. Allen, Journ. Mamm., vol. 11, No. 2, p. 139, May 9, 1930) ; now seldom 

 if ever appearing south of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait; north to northwest 

 Greenland and Ellesmere Island; rare or casual west of Barrow Strait, Somerset 

 Island, and Fury and Hecla Strait (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 81, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Family Phocidae (hair seals) 



Subfamily phocinae 

 Genus PHOCA 15 Linnaeus 



1758. Phoca Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 37. (Type, Phoca 

 vitulina Linnaeus.) 



Subgenus PHOCA Linnaeus (harbor seals) 



Phoca vitulina concolor De Kay* 



1842. Phoca concolor De Kay, Zoology of New York, . . . , vol. 1, pt. 1 (Mam- 

 malia), p. 53 (in [New York State], Natural History of New York). 



1884. Phoca vitulina True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 

 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1913. Phoca vitulina concolor Brown, Pocket List of Mammals of Eastern 

 Massachusetts, p. 30. 



Type Locality. — Long Island Sound, near Sands Point, Nassau County, N. Y. 

 Range. — Atlantic coast of North America from Ellesmere Island to North Caro- 

 lina (Brimley, Journ. Mamm., vol. 12, No. 3, p. 314, Aug. 24, 1931), most 

 abundant from Maine to Labrador, but rare or uncommon at extremes of its 

 range. Occasionally ascends St. Lawrence River to Montreal; a few records of 

 occurrence in Lake Ontario, and one record of specimen killed at mouth of 

 Gatineau River near Ottawa (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 78, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Phoca vitulina mellonae Doutt 



1942. Phoca vitulina mellonae Doutt, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, p. Ill, 

 May 12, 1942. 



Type Locality. — Lower Seal Lake, Quebec, about 90 miles east of Richmond 

 Gulf, Hudson Bay, lat. 56° 30' N., long. 74° 30' W. Range.— Restricted to 

 Upper and Lower Seal Lakes, Quebec, Canada. 



Phoca vitulina richardii (Gray) * 



1864. Halicyon richardii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, pt. 1, p. 28, 



July 1864. 

 1899. Phoca largha True, in Jordan, The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the 



North Pacific Ocean, pt. 3, p. 351, November 1899. 

 1902. Phoca richardii J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 



491, Dec. 12, 1902. 



"Revised by Doutt, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, pp. 61-125, May 12, 1942. 



