690 HALICH(ERUS GRYPUS GEAY SEAL. 



Halichoerus gryphus, Ball, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., xviii, 1838, 89, pi. i 

 (auiinal, female and two young), pi. ii (skull, female), pi. iii (lower 

 jaw and teeth). Bell, Brit. Quad., 1837, 278 (figg. skull and ani- 

 mal); ibid., 1874, 262. Reinhardt, Kryiyer's Naturhist.-Tidsskr.,. 

 iv, 1843, 313; Isis, 1845, 702. Reeks, Zoologist, 1871, 2549 (New- 

 foundland). Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., ix, 1872,. 

 322 (occurrence in Brit. Isl.); ibid., xiv, 1874, 96 (Cornwall). 

 Malm, Goteborgs och Bohusliins Fauna Ryggradsjuren, 1877, 145. 



Salichoerus griseiis, Nilsson, Skand. Faun., i, 1820, 377. Hornschuch, Isis,. 

 1824, 810. Lesson, Man. de Mam., 1827, 205. Hamilton, Amphib. 

 Carniv., 1839, 174, pi. x. Selby, Ann. Nat. Hist., vi, 1841, 462. 

 (Farn Islands). 



Phoca haUchcerns, Thienemann, ''Eeise in Norden Europa's, i, 1824, 142." 



Fhoca scopulicola, Thienemann, "Reise in Norden Europa's, i, 1824, 59, pi. 

 V (adult male)." (Iceland.) Fischer, Syn. Mam., 1829, 237 (from 

 Thienemann and Lesson). 



Callocephalus scopuUcolus, Lesson, Man. de Mam., 1820, 199 (=Phoea scopu- 

 licola, Thienemann). 



Fhoca thienemanni, Lesson, Diet, class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 414 (:=P]ioca 

 scopuUcola, Thienemann). 



Halichoerus macrorhynclius, Hornschuch and Schilling, Arch, fiir Natur- 

 gesch., 1851, 22. 



Halichoerus pachyrhynchus, Hornschuch and Schilling, Arch, fiir Natur- 

 gesch., 1851, 22. 



Fhoca iarbata, Edmonstone, View of the Zetland Islands, ii, 1809, 294. 

 Selby, Zoolog. Journ., ii, 1826, 465. Fleming, Hist. Brit. Anim., 

 1828, 18. Jenyns, Brit. Vert., 1835, 16. Macgillivray, Brit. 



j Quad., 1838, 212 (in part). Hamilton, Amphib. Carnivora, 1839, 



145, pi. "3", iv (in part only the biographical matter relating to 

 British localities). Bell, Hist. Brit. Quad., 1837, 274 (the British 

 references only). 



Seal from the South Seas, Home, Phil. Trans., 1822, pi. xxvii (skull). 



Gray Seal, English ; Graiie Seehtind, German ; Grd Sidl, Grd SJcal, Swedish ; 

 Krumsnude de Swl, Danish; Tapvaist, Hebridian; Haaf-fish, Orca- 

 dian ; Ut-Selur, Wetrar-Sehir, Icelandic. 



External Characters. Color of the adults silver-gray, 

 ash-gray, or dusky-gray, with obscurely defined spots of dusky 

 or blackish, the general color varying in different individuals 

 from nearly uniform silvery, or yellowish-white, to dusky or even 

 black, the lighter examples with or without blackish spots. 

 The young are at first white or yellowish-white, but soon be- 

 come dingy-yellow, blotched irregularly with blackish-gray,, 

 and later acquire still darker tints. The i)elage in the young 

 is soft and woolly, in the adults short and rigid and rather 

 sparse, the hairs flattened, adpressed, often recurved at the 

 tips. The mystacial bristles are abundant, large, stiff", flat- 

 tened, and waved or crenulated on both margins. Fore feet 



