THE BLADDERNOSE SEAL. 



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wake of a vessel for long distances, and can tlien be easily shot, 

 because it is often so fat that, unlike the t^Yo other kinds of 

 ,seals, it does not sink when it has been shot dead in the 

 water. 



Kkqwiytscn, the bladdernose seal, [Gystoijhm'a cristata, Erxl.) 

 the walrus-hunters say they have never seen on Novaya Zemlya, 



♦<•V^■e-^_•^^>, 



THE BEARDED SEAL. 



Swedish, Stoisiil. (Phoca barbata, Fabr ) 



THE ROUGH SEAL. 



Swedish, Snadd. {Phoca hispida, Eixl.) 



but it is stated to occur yearly in pretty large numbers among 

 the ice W.S.W. of South Cape on Spitzbergen. Only once 

 during our many voyages in the Polar Sea has a Klapviyts been 

 seen, viz , a young one that was killed in 1858 in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bear Island. 



Of the various species of whales, the narwhal, distinguished 



