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Genus Phoca Linnaeus. 



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, ^"^ 

 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. 



P1.ATE 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. 



