416 MR. R. BROWN ON THE SEALS OF GREENLAND. [Juiie 25, 



material of clothing in North Greenland. All of the ol ttoXXoI dress 

 in Neitsik breeches and jumpers; and we sojourners from a far country 

 soon encased ourselves in the somewhat hispid but most comfortable 

 Neitsik unmentionables. It is only high dignitaries, such as " Herr 

 Inspektor," that can afford such extravagance as a Kassigiak 

 {Callocephalus vitidinus) wardrobe! the Arctic belles monopolize 

 them all. 



(3) Pagophilus GRCENLANDicus (Miill.), Gray. 



Phoca granlandica, Miill. 



P. oeeanica, Lepech. 



Callocephahis oceanicus. Less. 



Phoca semilunaris, Bodd. 



P. dorsata, Pallas. 



P. miilleri, Less. 



Callocephalus fircenlandicus, F. Cuv. 



Young. Phoca lagura, Cuv. 



Callocejjhalus lagui-us, F. Cuv. 



Phoca albicauda, Desm. 



P. desmarestii. Less. 



P. pilayi, Less. 



Popular names. — Saddleback (English northern sealers); White- 

 coats and Bed Lampiers (Newfoundland sealers) (young) ; Harp 

 Seal (English authors) ; Soartsida (Norse) ; Dcelja, Bcevoh, Aine 

 (Lapp); Svartsiden (Danish, hence Egede, Groen. p. 62); Blaudru- 

 selur (Icelandic) ; Karoleek and Neitke (Eskimo at Pond's Bay, 

 Davis's Strait) ; Atak (Greenlanders). The same people, according 

 to the age of the Seal, call it Atarak, Aglektok or Uklektok, 

 and Atursoak (hence Crantz, Gronl. i. p. 163), meaning respectively 

 the little Seal (white), the blueside, and the large Seal, while Atak 

 means merely the Seal (blackside) without reference to age. A 

 variety having the belly dark also is called by the Danes in Green- 

 land Svart-svart-siden. The Uklektok of the natives is also called by 

 the whites Blaa-siden (the blueside). I shall afterwards refer to 

 some of its other names. 



There seems little doubt that the Phoca oeeanica, Lepech.*, is 

 identical with this species ; indeed Lepechin's description is one of 

 the best we have of the Pagophilus grcenlandicus. Lepechin 

 seems to have confounded with this the young of another species, 

 and to have erred by trusting wholly to the deceptive characters of 

 colouring, instead of relying for its distinctive character on the 

 more stable distinction of teeth and skull. What he says about the 

 changes of coat in P. oeeanica exactly agrees with what I have said 

 regarding the present species. 



Remarks. — It seems to be almost unknown to most writers on 

 this group that the male and female of the Saddleback are of dif- 



* In Sir Joseph Banks's copy of Fabricius's 'Fauna,' in the British Aluseum, 

 " Phoca oeeanica " is written (apparently in Sir Joseph's hamlvvriliiig) opposite 

 tiie description of Phoca (frwulandica. 



