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rocks in the sound, but their visits appear to be very capricious ” 
('42, Pp. 54)- ; 
Merriam: ‘The harbor seal breeds regularly both in the Gulf and 
River of St Lawrence and I have seen numbers of them in July as far 
up the river as the Saguenay, and they are still common even within 50 
miles of Quebec.” 
“‘Zadock Thompson has recorded the capture of two of them on Lake 
Champlain [’42, p. 38]. 
‘“‘ During a recent visit to Lake Champlain I was told that a seal had 
been killed on the ice near Crown point within four or five years but was 
unable to authenticate the statement. 
“Dr De Kay mentioned the occasional occurrence of this species on 
Lake Ontario, many years ago, and during the past winter one was 
killed on Onondaga lake that must have reached this remote inland 
water by way of Lake Ontario. [Syracuse Standard, ’82]|. 
‘‘T have seen many of these seals in Long Island sound chiefly about 
the Thimble islands, and March 25, 1879, I saw one on a rock in the 
Hudson river near Sing Sing” (’82, pp. 104~5). 
Fisher: ‘‘ Almost every spring one or more seals are seen [near Sing 
Sing] about the time the ice is breaking up in the river. On March 11, 
1884, an adult male was secured in the cove” (’g6, p. 200). 
Mearns: ‘The seal has been seen several times and once captured 
in the Hudson highlands. One was shot at New Hamburg on the 
Hudson by a Mr Wood for whom the specimen was mounted by Mr 
James S. Buchanan, a taxidermist of Newburgh who showed me the 
specimen and four large jars of oil which he took from it. It was shot 
on the ice near an airhole in the riverin midwinter 1877—78 and weighed 
60 pounds” (’98a, p. 346). | 
For other records of the harbor seal in or near New York waters see 
Fisher ’84, Merriam ’84a and ’84c and Syracuse Standard ’82. 
Mr Helme writes, “ A few harbor seals are met with each winter along 
the rocky shores of the eastern part of Long Island. Occasionally they 
are found in the sound.” | 
Cystophora cristata (Erxleben) Hooded seal 
1777 Lhoca cristata Erxleben, Syst. regn. anim. p. 590. 
1841 Cystophora cristata Peters, Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 
qter Jahrg. Bd. 1: 326. 
1842 Stemmatopus cristatus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. 
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