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HOODED SEAL. 
Phoca Cristata. P. capite antice cristato, corpore griseo. hin. SysS, 
Nat. Gmel. p. 64. 
Grey Seal, with a folding skinny crest on the forehead. 
Hooded Seal. Pennant ^adr. p. zjg. 
. : This is distinguished by a strong folded skin 
on the forehead^ which it can, at pleasure, fling 
over the eyes and nose, to defend them against 
stones and sand in stormy weather. Its hair is 
white, with a thick coat of black woolly hair be- 
neath, which makes the animal appear of a fine 
grey. It inhabits only the south of Greenland 
and Newfoundland ; and in the latter is called the 
Hooded Seal. The hunters affirm that they can- 
not kill it till they remove the hooded skin or 
covering of the head. 
HARP SEAL. 
Phoca Groenlandica. P, capite lee'vi inauriculato, corpore griseO) la- 
terihus luna nigra. Lin. Syst. Nat. GmeL p. 64. 
Earless grey Seal, with a black dorsal crescent, the horns point- 
ing downwards along the sides. 
Harp Seal. Pennant ^adr, p. 279. 
The Harp Seal is of a clumsy and inelegant 
form; the head seeming to join the body without 
the appearance of any neck; the snout is rather 
pointed : the general colour of the animal is whit- 
ish or grey, with a very large and somewhat irre- 
