HARP. SEAL.’ 
and quietly expects its fate*. The Greenlanders therefore deteft this 
fpecies of Whale, not only on account of the havock it makes among 
the Seals, but becaufe it frightens them away from the bays f. 
It is entirely different from the Leonine Seat, or from that of the 
South-fea, called the BorrLe-NoseE. 
Hift. Quad. N° 385. 
Phoca Oceanica, Krylatca Ruffis, Lepechin, AG. Acad. Petrop. pars i, 259. tab. 
Vi. Vii. 
Phoca Greenlandica, Faun. Green]. N° 7.—Atak Green!. Atarfoak, Crantz, i. 124. 
Ore With a round head: high forehead: nofe fhort: large 
black eyes: whifkers difpofed in ten rows of hairs : four cutting 
teeth in the upper jaw, the two middlemoft the longeft; four alfo in 
the lower, lefs fharp than the others: two canine teeth in each jaw: 
fix grinders in each jaw, each three-pointed : hairs fhort: fkin thick 
and ftrong. 
Head, nofe, and chin, of a deep chefnut color, nearly black; reft 
of the body of a dirty white, or light grey: on the top of the 
fhoulders is a large mark of the fame color; with the head bifurcated, 
each fork extending downwards along the fides half way the length 
of the body. This mark is always conftant ; but there are befides a 
few irregular fpots incidental to the old ones. 
The female has only two, retractile, teats; and brings only one 
young atatime. The cub, the firft year, is of a bright afh-color, 
whitifh beneath, and marked in all parts with multitudes of fmall 
black fpots, at which period they are called by the Rafians White 
Seals. In the next year they begin to be fpotted; from that period 
the females continue unchanged in color. The males at full age, 
which Mr. Crantz fays is their fifth year, attain their diftinguifhing 
fpot, and are called by the Greenlanders Attarfoak { ; by the Rufians, 
Krylatka, or winged. 
* Faun. Groenl. p. 9. + The fame, p. 45. . } Crantz, i. 124, 
Dee: This 
77. Harr. 
