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farther up the fiord, and that, in summer, it was present along the north 
shores of Cumberland sound, more particularly in the neighbourhood of 
Bon Accord. 
Mr. James Aitken, formerly in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 
post at cape Dorset, reported that in the summer of 1926 occasional harp 
seals were secured in Cape Dorset region. While the writer was at Amad- 
juak bay, Eskimo on August 7, 1926, brought three harp seals which had 
been killed on the outer islands to the south. The largest seal weighed 
320 pounds. 
Kumlien (1879, p. 61) reported that the harp or saddleback seal 
occurred frequently in spring and autumn in the southern waters of Cum- 
berland sound and occasionally as far up as Bon Accord. He noticed a 
few schools “at different times during September, 1877, and October, 
1878, from the islands off the middle Labrador coast to Cumberland, at 
times at considerable distances from the land They disappear 
from Cumberland when the ice makes and return again in spring with open 
water, but stay only a short time”. Hantzsch (1913, p. 156) found no 
evidence of a harp seal having been taken by the Eskimo of Blacklead 
island during the winter of 1909-10. 
Sergeant J. E. Wight, R.C.M.P., reports that the harp seal is the 
common species at Port Burwell, Labrador; that it is very numerous during 
the spring and autumn periods of migration; that large catches are made 
in the nets in June and July, and in November and early December; that 
numbers occur all summer about cape Chidley and Button islands. Low 
(1906, p. 279) states that the harp seal 
“Supplies fully two-thirds of the seals taken annually off the coasts of Newfoundland 
in the spring, when the females give birth to their young on the floating ice of the Arctic 
pack. The harp seal is more or less common on the northern coasts and southward 
along the Atlantic coast of Labrador, at all seasons. In Hudson strait they are rare in 
summer, but are not uncommon after the shore ice forms in autumn and before it leaves 
in the early summer.” 
11. Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben). bearded seal. 
Eskimo: Ogjook, Ukjuk ; the young, Terriglo, according to Hantzsch. 
This large seal is seldom seen by naturalists. Even when daily 
associated with Eskimo hunters, weeks sometimes elapse during which 
not a single bearded seal will be observed. But the animal is not truly 
rare, for a considerable number are yearly captured. According to the 
Eskimo they are met with, more commonly than elsewhere, about cape 
Mercy and Nugumeute, and in southern Cumberland waters, remaining 
in these places the year around if there is open water. 
In 1924, the bearded seal was first noticed on September 15 in Pang- 
nirtung fiord. On September 28, a specimen, No. 6246 cf, was secured 
at the head of the fiord; its length is 6 feet; girth back of fore flippers, 
3 feet; girth at middle, 4 feet 3 inches. On October 14, a skin was seen in 
the possession of an Eskimo at Nunatuk, Ivingua. On October 30, three 
small bearded seals were shot in Pangnirtung fiord. The Eskimo between 
Merchants bay and Kevetuk stated that this seal was taken in moderate 
numbers during summer and early autumn and was never present during 
winter. Compared with the ringed seal it is scarce. A number were 
shot by Eskimo in Cumberland sound during the 1925 season. In June, 
1926, a number were seen in the open sea and along the edge of the land 
