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year, Attarsoak ; it then wears its half-moon, the signal 

 of maturity." 



It is singular that the Greenland seal, in its immature 

 livery, occasionally visits the British shores, and also the 

 coasts of France. In the ' Proceedings of the British 

 Institution ' for 1836 there is an account of two caught 

 in the Severn ; one captured on the coast of France lived 

 for some time in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. Fred. 

 Cuvier, considering it a new species, gave it the title of 

 CalocepTialus (Phoca) discolor. Professor Nilsson also 

 regarded the immature as a distinct species, and charac- 

 terized it as such under the name of Phoca annellata. 

 The titles, therefore, discolor and annellata, must both 

 merge into Grmnlandica. 



120. — Immature Harp-Seal. 



Fig. 120 is the immature Harp- Seal, the Phoca dis- 

 color of F. Cuvier, from a specimen which was captured 

 on the coast of France, and lived for several weeks in 

 the Paris Menagerie. M. F. Cuvier declares that he 

 never knew any wild animal that was more easHv tamed 



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