RINGED or HAIR SEAL, Pusa hispida 



(Netchek, Malak) 



Range. — Arctic seas, circumpolar ; in Alaska 

 chiefly in Chukchi and Bering Seas, south to the 

 Pribilof Ishinds. 



Habitat. — Among ice floes and pack ice. 



Race in Ahi.^ka. — The Ahiskan race is heauforti- 

 ana (type locality: Cockbum Point, Dolphin and 

 Union Strait, Mackenzie District) . 



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