. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . —How hunted.—The Clapper Hunt.—The Bearded or Great —Its Habitat.—The Hooded or CrestedSeal.—Its Habits.—How Utilized. THE Harp or Greenland Seal {Gronlands Skill, Sw.;P. Grcjenlandica, Miill.; F. dorsata. Pall.). Thisspecies, though included in their Fauna, seems littleknown to Scandinavian zoologists. There is, however, aspecimen of it in the Stockholm Museum that wascaptured on the coast of Finmark; and as Leem, in hisdescription of that province, speaks of i
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . —How hunted.—The Clapper Hunt.—The Bearded or Great —Its Habitat.—The Hooded or CrestedSeal.—Its Habits.—How Utilized. THE Harp or Greenland Seal {Gronlands Skill, Sw.;P. Grcjenlandica, Miill.; F. dorsata. Pall.). Thisspecies, though included in their Fauna, seems littleknown to Scandinavian zoologists. There is, however, aspecimen of it in the Stockholm Museum that wascaptured on the coast of Finmark; and as Leem, in hisdescription of that province, speaks of it by more thanone Lappish name—applicable, probably, to its severalages—it may with safety be inferred that formerly, atleast, it was no stranger there. The learned say, more-over, that, as the young of the Greenland Seal arefrequently known to make long excursions from theArctic regions, their proper home, and are occasionallymet with as far south as Great Britain, the presumptiontherefore is, that they not imfrequently visit the Scandi-navian coasts also; but,from bearing no very distinguishing •;? I. -0^ i5U
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