CHAPTER XXVII. 



The Harp or Greenland Seal. — How hunted. — The Clapper Hunt. — 

 The Bearded or Great Seal.- — Its Habitat. — The Hooded or Crested 

 Seal. — Its Habits. — How Utilized. 



THE Harp or Greenland Seal {Gronlands Skill, Sw. ; 

 P. Grcjenlandica, Miill. ; F. dorsata. Pall.). This 

 species, though included in their Fauna, seems little 

 known to Scandinavian zoologists. There is, however, a 

 specimen of it in the Stockholm Museum that was 

 captured on the coast of Finmark ; and as Leem, in his 

 description of that province, speaks of it by more than 

 one Lappish name — applicable, probably, to its several 

 ages — it may with safety be inferred that formerly, at 

 least, it was no stranger there. The learned say, more- 

 over, that, as the young of the Greenland Seal are 

 frequently known to make long excursions from the 

 Arctic regions, their proper home, and are occasionally 

 met with as far south as Great Britain, the presumption 

 therefore is, that they not imfrequently visit the Scandi- 

 navian coasts also; but,from bearing no very distinguishing 



