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THE GREENLAND OR HARP SEAL. 



Phoca groenlandica. MULLER. 

 PLATE XIX. 



Muzzle obtuse, outline of forehead straight ; grinders 

 three-lobed or fae-lobed y placed directly in the jaws, with 

 considerable intervals ; pile yellowish-grey or whitish, un- 

 spotted, or variously blotched with brown ; forefeet with 

 the second toe longest. 



Phoca grcenlandica, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 8 ; Fabr. Fauna 

 Greenland. 1 1 ; Desmar. Mammal. 245 ; Bell, Brit. Quadr. 

 269. 



THE Greenland Seal was first added to our Fauna 

 oy Mr Bell, on the authority of Dr Riley, who ex- 

 hibited at the meeting of the British Association at 

 Bristol, in 1836, two skulls, which, although consi- 

 dered by Professor Nilsson to belong to Phoca 

 discolor of M. F. Cuvier, were subsequently found 

 to present the characters of the present species 

 Several years ago, an individual, obtained from tne 

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