1902.] Allen, North Pacific Phocida. 475 



Murdoch records it as of rare occurrence at Point Barrow, and 

 True mentions the capture of a young female by sealers near 

 St. Paul Island. Ball obtained specimens at Cape Roman- 

 zoff. Nelson gives its southern limit as "about the rocky 

 shores of Nunevak Island and Cape Vancouver. Stray indi- 

 viduals may occur about the mouth of the Koskoquim River, 

 but if so they are very rare." 



(?) 3. Phoca (Pagophilus) groenlandica (Fabricius}. 

 HARP SEAL. 



Phoca grcenlandica NORDQUIST, Vega-Exped. Vetensk. lakt. II, 

 1883, 105 (ex P. dorsata Pallas). Reported as not seen east of White 

 Island, off the Gulf of Obi. 



Phoca grcenlandica NELSON & TRUE, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 

 1887, 263 (Wrangle and Herald Islands). STEJNEGER, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm. XVI, 1896, 21 (Commander Islands, on the authority of pre- 

 vious writers.) 



I have never seen a specimen of this species from the North 

 Pacific. It was recorded in early days by Steller and Pallas 

 as occurring on the coast of Kamschatka. Mr. Nelson men- 

 tions "a skin of a young specimen" brought to him at St. 

 Michaels, by a native, from Cape Prince of Wales. He also states: 

 " During the cruise of the ' Corwin ' in the summer of 1881 I 

 was fortunate enough to add a little to the known distribution 

 of the ' Saddle-back. ' While cruising among the ice about 

 Wrangel and Herald Islands several adults were seen, some of 

 which were within a very short distance of the vessel. On 

 August 12, in particular, while we were steaming through the 

 pack off the shore of Wrangel Island, two of these seals were 

 seen close alongside. One came up within twenty yards of 

 us and gazed curiously at the vessel as it pushed against a 

 slowly-yielding mass of ice. The chestnut brown of the ani- 

 mal's head was very conspicuous, and I called Captain 

 Hooper's attention to it, whereupon he said that he had seen a 

 number of these animals in the pack along this coast while 

 there the previous year. This is good evidence that the 

 Saddle-back is a regular and not uncommon summer resident 

 of the ice-pack northwest of Bering Straits, and it probably 

 winters there as well. South of Bering Straits its range 



