CHAPTER XXVII. 



The Harp or Greenland Seal. How lnmti-d.- -Tli.- rl;i]j>tT Hunt. 

 The Bearded or Great Seal. Ite Habitat. Tin- lUndr.! ..r (Y.-I.-.1 

 Seal. Its Habits. How Utili/.-.l 



THE Harp or Greenland Seal ((iriiitlmnlti steal, S\v. ; 

 P. Gra>iilti,nlica, Miill.; P. <h tl -*t<i, 1'all.). This 

 species, though included in their Fauna, si-ems 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 Lecm, iii his 

 description of that province, speaks of it by more than 

 one Lappisli name applicable, probably, to its several 

 ages it may with safety be inferred that formerly, at 

 least, it was no stranger there. The learned s;iy. more- 

 over, that, as the young of the (ireenland Seal are 

 frequently known to make long excursions from tin- 

 Arctic regions, their proper hom<-, and are occasionally 

 met with as far south as (ireat Kritain, the presumption 

 then-fore i-, that they not (infrequently visit the Scandi- 

 navian coast- aU >; but.frum hearini,' no ver\ distinguishing 



