GILPIN ON THE SEALS OF NOVA SCOTIA. 37T 



Art. VII. — On the Seals of Nova Scotia. By J. Bernard 

 Gilpin, A. B., M. D., M. R. C. S. 



{Read March 9, 1874.) 



FAMILY PHOCID^. 



Calocephalus vituUnus. F. Cuvier. Gray. 

 Phoca vitiilina. Linn. Gill. 

 Phoca concolor. Dekay. , 



Common Seal. Harbor Seal. 



Pagophilus Groenlandicus. Gray. 



Phoca Groenlandica. F. Cuvier. 



Saddle Back. Harp Seal. 



Halichcerus grypus. Gray. Mlsson. Gill. 

 Halichoerus gryphus. Bell. 



Phoca grypus. 0. Fab. 



Grey Seal. 



Cystophora cristata. Gray. Nilsson. 



Phoca cristata. F. Cuvier. Dekay. 



Hood Seal. 



Of these four species, two may be called residents of Nova 

 Scotia, the Harbor Seal, and the Grey Seal. The others are only 

 chance visitors, or are brought down the Straits of Bellisle on the 

 ice, by the Arctic current to the northern shores of Cape Breton, 

 in early spring. Another species not uncommon to Newfoundland, 

 called Square Flipper by the fishermen, may also reach us ; I never 

 have had an opportanity of identifying them, but suppose them to 

 be the Phoca barbata of Gray's list, B. Museum. 



