Bearded Seal; Gray Seal; Hooded Seal 
male white or yellowish-white, with face black and a curved 
black band on each side, meeting over the shoulders and 
again above the tail. Female and young variously mottled. 
First toe of forefoot (flipper) not longer than the second. 
Range. Arctic seas to northern Atlantic and Pacific. 
Bearded Seal 
Erignathus barbatus (Fabricius) 
Length. 7 feet. 
Description. Gray above, darker along the middle of the back, 
often more or less mottled. Young in the woolly stage gray. 
The fact that the middle toes are the longest materially alters 
the shape of the ‘‘flipper,’’ and this fact, together with the 
large size, will serve to readily identify this species. 
Range. Arctic seas to north Atlantic and Pacific, south to New- 
foundland. 
Gray Seal 
Halicherus grypus (Fabricius) 
Length. 8 to 9g feet. 
Description. Flippers shaped as in the harbour seal, face two- 
thirds instead of one-half the length o the head, bristles of 
the cheeks curiously crenulated. Colour of adults silvery- 
gray to nearly black, generally with black spots. 
Range. North Atlantic, south to Newfoundland and Great Britain. 
Hooded Seal 
Cystophora cristata (Erxleben) 
Length. 7 feet. 
Description. Front teeth four above and two below instead of 
six and four, as in all other true seals. Colour bluish-black 
above, lighter beneath, varied with whitish spots. Some- 
times light-grayish with dark spots. Young in woolly stage 
ure white. Head of the male with a movable muscular 
ag, extending from the nose to behind the ears. 
Range. Arctic seas, southward casually to the United States. 
This and the harp seal are Arctic species frequenting the 
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