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E have in the Gulf and Kiver St. Lawrence 

 six species of seals, five of which are resi- 

 dents; that is to say that, although subject to 

 migrations, specimens of them are found here at 

 all seasons of the year. This statement is not 

 made on supposition but on personal observation 

 and experience. The following is a list of the 

 species: Phoct, vitulina, common harbor seal. 

 Phoca groenlandica, harp seal. Phoca foetida, 

 floe rat, or ringed seal. Halichoerus, grypus, 

 horse head or grey seal. Cystophora cristala, 

 hooded seal, and Erignathus barbatus ( ?) square 

 flipper. This last one is the straggler of our 

 waters, as also the rarest. I have never seen it 

 in summer. I shot only two of them during the 

 several winters I spent at seal hunting at Point 

 des Monts, and saw three or four others killed. 

 It is one of the largest of our seals ; equal almost 

 in size to the hooded seal, but easily distinguish- 

 ed by its peculiar yellowish color and the small 

 size of its head as compared with those of other 

 seals. I have never seen the young of this seal 

 here, and presume they breed much further north. 

 The two I killed were nales and were about eight 

 feet long and very fat. They probably weighed 



