THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. 99 
Genus PHoca Linnzus. 
Phoca vitulina Linn. 
Harbor Seal. 
PLATE 48. 
Length, 4 feet. Color usually yellowish gray spotted with 
black; beneath, yellowish white with small black spots. Often 
dark brown varied with light spots. 
A few harbor seals probably come down the coast every 
winter, and reports of captures reach us every now and then 
from fishermen along the shore. Seals have been known to come 
up the Delaware as far as Trenton in severe winters, where Dr. 
C. C. Abbott recorded them in 1861, 1864, 1866, 1870, 1877, and 
eight in winter of 1878-79 (J. A Allen, N. A. Pinnipeds, p. 
585). Mr. Rhoads records another taken at the same place in 
October, 1901 (Mammals Pa. and N. J., p. 125). 
Phoca vitulina Allen, N. A. Pinnipeds, p. 585—Rhoads Mam. 
Pa.‘and N: J., 1903, p. 125. 
Phoca groenlandica Erxleben. 
Harp Seal. 
PLATE 49. 
Length, 5 feet. Color, yellowish white, with face black and a 
curved black band down each side of the body, meeting over the 
shoulders and above the tail. 
A seal reported by Dr. C. C. Abbott as captured in the Dela- 
ware near Trenton, in the winter 1878-79, was evidently of this 
species. (Allen Monograph Amer. Pinnipeds, p. 640.) It 
doubtless accompanied the unusual migration of harbor seals 
which occurred that season. 
Phoca groenlandica Allen, Amer. Pinnipeds, p. 640.—Rhoads, 
Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 125. 
