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rs for themselves the parents at once return, 
; Monts in great numbers on their way up the river. 
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visit Manicougan shoals during the present year. Concerning 
this trip he writes me : 
“I took up my quarters on board the light ship there for three 
days in order to have a chance to see what kinds were likely to 
keep around the shoals. During that period I saw three large 
herds of the harp seal pass the light ship, moving east. The 
first herd, which I saw August 29, contained about five to six 
hundred o/d harps. The same day in the evening another smaller 
herd was seen, and on the 31st another herd of a couple of hun- 
dred. The captain, who is a very intelligent man and a sports- 
man, told me that it was nothing unusual but almost of daily 
occurrence, and that they did not seem to move more jn one 
direction than another, but would sometimes go up one day and 
down the other.” 
Mr. Comeau further states that, “ The harp is tolerably com- 
mon as far up as the entrance of the Saguenay. A good many 
are killed every year, both in winter and summer, around Escou- 
main (twenty-five miles below the Saguenay). I have myself 
seen harp seals above Hare island. They were numerous this 
year (1884) off Godbout, in June and July.” 
To recapitulate: From the data in hand it appears that the harp 
seal is a permanent resident in the St. Lawrence; that it spends 
the summer wandering about, sometimes sing : 
schools, sometimes in large herds; that it ascends the river at 
kast as far as the Saguenay,. and is common between Mille 
Vasches and Manicougan; that it frequents with considerable 
Tegularity particular shores and estuaries to feed on the small fish 
that congregate there at certain states of the tide; that it works 
Wn the river in the early winter, and is particularly eee 
about Point des Monts in December, January, and the early part o 
R ebruary ; that it then passes farther down to whelp on the me 
ice in the gulf; that its young are born during the latter part 0 
February or early March ; that as soon as the young are able to 
passing Point des 
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