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

 p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1934. Pagophoca groenlandica Boetticher, Zeitschr. Saug., vol. 9, No. 3, p. 359, 

 Dec. 30, 1934. 



Type Locality. — Greenland and Newfoundland. Range. — North Atlantic and 

 adjoining waters of Arctic Ocean on coasts of northern Europe and eastern North 

 America; on American side from Greenland and southern Ellesmere Island south 

 regularly to Hudson Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland, and Gulf of St. Lawrence; 

 accidental in western Arctic District at Aklavik, Mackenzie River delta and off 

 north end of Melbourne Island, Oueen Maud Gulf, about long. 104° W. (Anderson, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 79, Jan. 24, 1947) . Fortuitously to New 

 England and New Jersey (Rhoads, The mammals of Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, p. 126, 1903). 



Genus ERIGNATHUS Gill (bearded seals) 

 1866. Erignathus Gill, Comm. Essex Inst., vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5, 9, Apr. 7, 1866. 

 (Type, Phoca barbata Erxleben.) 



Erignathus barbatus barljatus (Erxleben) * 



1777. [Phoca] barbata Erxleben, Systema regni animalis . . . , vol. 1, p. 590. 

 1866. Erignathus barbatus Gill, Comm. Essex Inst., vol. 5, No. 1, p. 12, Apr. 



7, 1866. 

 1884. Erignathus barbatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 



p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 Type Locality. — Coasts of Scotland, southern Greenland and Iceland. Range. — 

 Arctic shores of northern Europe and North America from Greenland south to 

 Hudson Bay, Labrador, and rarely to Newfoundland. 



Erignathus barbatus nauticus (Pallas) * 



1811. Phoca naulica Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, . . . , vol. 1, p. 108. 

 (North American specimens regarded by Anderson, Canadian Field-Nat., 

 vol. 44, No. 4, p. 99, Apr. 1, 1930, as identical with barbatus.) 

 1904. Erignathus barbatus nauticus Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 24, p. 



47, Nov. 23, 1904. 

 Type Locality. — Okhotsk Sea. Range. — East coast of Bering Sea from Bristol 

 Bay (Osgood, loc. cit.) north to Point Barrow, Alaska (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 52, p. 43, Mar. 24, 1900) , and Arctic coast. 



Genus HALICHOERUS Nilsson (gray seals) 

 1820. Halichoerus Nilsson, Skandinavisk Fauna . . . , vol. 1, p. 376. (Type, 

 Halichoerus griseus Nilsson = Phoca grypus Fabricius.) 



Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius)* 



1791. Phoca grypus Fabricius, Skrivter af Naturh.-Selskabet, Kj</>benhavn, 



vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 167, pi. 13, fig. 4. 

 1841. Halichoerus grypus Nilsson, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 7, vol. 1, p. 318. 

 1884. Halichoerus grypus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 



