442 ■ PHOCA. 



Phoca equestris Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., i, 1831, p. iii. 

 Ribbon Seal. 



Type locality. Kurile Islands, Japan. 



Geogr. Distr. Bering Sea south to the Aleutian Islands and to 

 the island of Saghalien on the Asiatic coast, and Kurile Islands, 

 Japan. 



Subgenus C. Phoca. 



1065. Phoca vitulina Linnaeus. 



Phoca vitulina Linn., Sy.st. Nat., i, 1758, p. 38; i, 1766, p. 56. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 363, 

 pi. XLix. Zool. Ser. 

 Phoca variegata Nilss., Skand. Faun., i, 1820, p. 359. 

 Phoca scopnlicola Thienem., Reis. Nord. Eur., i, 1824, p. 59, 



pi. V. (ad male.) 

 Phoca littorea Thienem., Reis. Nord. Eur., i, 1824, p. 61, pi. vi 



(male), pis. vii, viii (skulls). 

 Phoca pealei Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, pp. 4, 13. 

 Phoca joetida Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 402. 

 Harbor Seal. 



Type locality. Coast of Europe. 



Geogr. Distr. Coast of North Atlantic Ocean from New York to 

 the Arctic Ocean ; coast of Greenland and other eastern boreal islands. 

 Northern coast of Europe. 



1066. Phoca richardi (Gray). 



Halicyon richardii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 28, fig. i. 

 Phoca richardii Allen, Bull. Am. JVIus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1902, p. 491. 

 Phoca largha Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 363. Zool. Ser. (nee Pallas.) 

 Richard's Harbor Seal. 



Type locality. Vancouver Island. 



Geogr. Distr. Northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea. 



a. /'//()(■(/ richardi jjrihiJofdisis Allen. 



Phoca richardii pribilofensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1902, p. 495. 

 Pribilof Islands Seal. 



Type locality. St. Paul Island, Pribilof Island, Bering Sea. 



Geogr. Distr. Bering Sea. Range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Dentition weaker than that of P. richardi. 



Color. Above silvery yellowish white, spotted with dark brown 

 and blackish, confluent from the back of the head to middle of back 



