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and all more or less ferocious aiid difficult to secure. The 

 largest example was estimated by the fishermen to weigh 

 fifty stones." 



Early in March 1870 an adult female, measuring 7J feet 

 in length and weighing 33 stones, was captured in Mr 

 Speedie's stake-nets, at the Tentsmuir station, mouth of the 

 Eden, near St Andrews, and secured for the Anatomical 

 Museum of the Edinburgh University by Professor Turner, 

 who gave an account of it in the " Journal of Anatomy arid 

 Physiology" (vol. iv., p. 270). According to Mr Walker 

 (" Scot. Nat.," iii, 159), another was captured along with the 

 above ; and Professor Turner states that in the previous 

 spring two young examples, captured in the salmon-nets 

 near Montrose, were sent to the Anatomical Museum. 



At the mouth of the Tay I have myself frequently seen 

 large Seals, undoubtedly belonging to this species. In the 

 autumn of 1886 I had an excellent view of one gamboling 

 with its cub on a sandbank at the mouth of the Eden. 

 Walker, it will be observed, notes it to the Carr Eock, which 

 therefore gives it a place in the fauna of the Forth. I well 

 remember the large number of Seals which, twenty-five to 

 thirty years ago, annually appeared about harvest-time in the 

 Tyne estuary near D unbar, many of which, I am persuaded, 

 belonged to this species. 



[GREENLAND OR HARP SEAL. 



GRCENLAND1CA Fair. 



A young Seal obtained many years ago at the mouth of 

 the Firth of Forth was somewhat doubtfully referred by 

 MacGillivray to this species (" British Quadrupeds," 1838, 

 p. 209). It does not appear to have been preserved, so that 



