THE PIED SEAL. 6#~- 



This Seal is called, in the Orknies, selc\\y: in 

 Wales,, moelrlion: in France, plioque commun, veau 

 niarin, loup marin: in Italy, veccliio marino : in 

 Spain and Portugal, lobo de mer, lobo marino : in 

 Germany, robbe, seehund, see-kalb, meer-wolf, meer- 

 hund : in Holland, rob, zeeliund: in Sweden, sial, 

 wilkare-sial: in Denmark, soelhund : in Poland, liies. 

 morski, dele morski : in Iceland, setyr: in Bothnia/ 

 alg, the male; lagg, the female; kut, the young : 

 in Russia, tjulen. 



These names are, however, applied^ for the most 

 part, indiscriminately to all the species. 





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THE PIED SEAL*. 



An individual of this species, described in Mr, 

 Pennant's History of Quadrupeds, was caught in 

 the estuary of the river Dee, near Chester, in the 

 month of May, 1766. For a little while after its 



* Phoca bicolor.*Shaw> Le Phoque a venire blanc. Buffbn. 



The Pied Seal was unknown to Linnaeus. In the folio edition of 

 Pennant's British Zoology, it is regarded as a variety of the Common 

 Seal ; but in the Jast edition of his History of Quadrupeds, it is 

 considered, with propriety, to be a perfectly distinct species. 

 For the description of the Pied Seal, see the Synopsis, p. 12. No. 7. 



F 2 capture, 



