it gradually disappears belbro roacliiiig tiro liiiid Jlippers. The 
young are produced about a fortnight earlier on the Labrador ice 
than in the Greenland seas ; and are noticed by the sealers, in the 
latter seas, coming north about the middle of May, in great 
numbers. They keep the margin of the ice all the way, taking a 
rest every day until they reach latitude seventy-six degrees, when 
they change their course to east by south, and steer for the south 
end of Spitzbergen. They then pass onward until they reach the 
shores of Novaya Zemlya, and even Tranz Josef Land, where they 
were seen by Mr. Leigh Smith in the season of 1880. The Green- 
land sealers know that these later migrants come from Labrador, 
not only from the vast increase which they observe in numbers, but 
also from the fact of their frequently finding small shot lodged in 
the skins of the new-comers, this mode of attack being peculiar to the 
Labrador sealers, the Greenland crews always using a single bullet. 
A full grown Harp Seal will weigh two hundred and thirty pounds, 
and produce about one hundred pounds of skin and blubber. This 
species has been captured at least once on the Eritish coast, and 
probably seen in a few instances. 
The Bearded Seal {Plb. harhata) is solitary in its habits, and 
nowhere very numerous. It is believed to bo the “ Square Flipper ” 
of the Newfoundland, and the “ Ground Seal ” of the Greenland 
sealers. To the Esquimaux it is very important, its blubber being 
esteemed a luxury from the delicacy of its flavour, and the skin 
which is exceedingly tough is used for making the lines attached to 
their harpoons. The young of this species take to the Avater 
immediately after birth. It is not sufficiently numerous to be of 
much commercial importance. 
Tliere remains one more species, the Hooded or Eladdor-nose Seal 
{Ci/stophora cridata), and this, like the Harp Seal, is also a migratory 
species, and has been known to stray as far south as our own shores : 
its true home, however, is the circumpolar seas. IMany of them 
are taken between Iceland and Greenland in the month of Juno, in 
Avhich seas they arrive later than the Harp Seal ; but their chief 
resort is the ice in the seas surrounding Jan Mayen. The Eladder- 
nose is very fierce in disposition, and diflicult to kill Avith the club, 
in consequence of the curious “hood” Avhich, in the adult males 
covers the front part of the head, Avhero Seals are ordinai'ily most 
vulnerable, and Avhich it can inflate at pleasure. This is one of the 
