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and it often remains for a long time at the same spot, regarding 

 with curiosity everything unusual it may come across. In general 

 it is the small seals (the young "troll" seals and a little older 

 animals), which are met with out here; the full-grown animals, 

 which were so common the whole year through in the tjords at 

 Danmarks Havn and several other places were not at all seen out 

 here. They are never found lying on the ice (in contrast to the 

 almost equally common Cystophora cristata Erxl.). 



The place furthest east wehere they were found was ca. 76° N. L., 



:s^^ 



Fig. 8. Hole for ascending of Phoca foetida. Shannon Island ^4 1908. 

 (The ice is seven months old.) 



13° 26' W. L.; in other words, they do not occur (or in any case 

 only rarely) in the outer parts of the drift ice, but in the middle 

 and inner parts of this (cf. Phoca groenlandica and Cystophora cristata), 

 as also everywhere on the coasts and in the fjords at North-East 

 Greenland. In the fjords they were observed on innumerable occa- 

 sions throughout the whole year at all the places where the ice was 

 suitable (see Introduction). 



Towards the north it was observed on the ice in the mouth of 

 Hagens and Danmarks Fjords (^n and May, July 1907); further 

 at ca. 80°— 81^2° N. L. (June) in the very open water here; and its 

 bones were common in the Eskimo ruins at 80° 25' N. L. and every- 



