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succeed in examining any of their stomachs, but numerous frag- 
ments of red crustaceans floating at the surface may have been 
passed in their feces. The young Saddle Seals at this season, 
with their silvery grey coats, marked here and there with an 
irregular black spot, with their large round black eyes and long 
delicate whiskers, are perhaps the most beautiful of all the Seals 
of the Greenland Sea. Their movements, too, have a peculiar 
grace and elegance, darting about with rapidity under water, 
performing various movements at the surface, and now and 
again with remarkable agility leaping clean out of the water— 
enlivening the solitary regions of the ice. 
July 17.—-Lat. 74° 87’, long. 9° 30’ W. Colour of the water, 
- greenish but clear; temperature, 39°. The evening being 
remarkably quiet and fine, I amused myself in the capture of 
surface invertebrate forms, some species of which were very 
abundant. The Crustacea were represented by Gammarus locusta, 
an amphipod occurring in great abundance throughout the 
Arctic Sea and frequently found congregating under the ice; 
of these many bore eggs. Huthemisto lbellula (Mandt), so 
often found in the stomach of the Floe Seal,—a more 
elegant form than G. locusta, and very difficult to capture on 
account of its agility—was darting about in considerable 
numbers; while the copepod Calanus jfinmarckicus, on account 
of its abundance, the crustacean par excellence of the Green- 
land Sea, and undoubtedly contributing very largely to the 
support of Balena mysticetus and Balenoptera Sibbaldi, existed 
in great numbers at the depth of a few fathoms. Besides 
crustaceans, there was an abundance of the quaint-looking shell- 
less pteropod Clio borealis, their wing-like appendages continually 
moving and meeting one another, both dorsally and ventrally. 
Some of these Cliones were very large, measuring 23 inches in 
length. The surface of the water had a very oily appearance, 
which perhaps was due to the oil-globules which now and again 
might be noticed floating up to the surface, spreading out and 
displaying iridescent colours. 
July 19.—Lat. 74° 53’, long. 10°30’ W. The water had a 
dull lead-coloured appearance, with much oil at the surface 
~ lying in streaks, running parallel with the direction of the wind. 
_ Inone of these oily streaks I noticed a number of Mallemokes 
busily engaged in eating something present at the surface. On 
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