. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Teilmann and Dietz: The Harbour Seal in Greenland 149. JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC MONTH Figure 4. The reported catches of Harbour Seals (pooled from all Greenland), by month, based on information from the Hunters' Lists of Game (HLG 1938-90). bance and hunting (Anonymous 1973, 1982a, 1982b). In Qaqortoq municipality eight Harbour Seal haulout sites (see Table 1, locality numbers 42-43 and 45-50) have been protected against any kind of seal hunting from 1 May through September (Anonymous 1982c). Place names indicating presence of Harb
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Teilmann and Dietz: The Harbour Seal in Greenland 149. JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC MONTH Figure 4. The reported catches of Harbour Seals (pooled from all Greenland), by month, based on information from the Hunters' Lists of Game (HLG 1938-90). bance and hunting (Anonymous 1973, 1982a, 1982b). In Qaqortoq municipality eight Harbour Seal haulout sites (see Table 1, locality numbers 42-43 and 45-50) have been protected against any kind of seal hunting from 1 May through September (Anonymous 1982c). Place names indicating presence of Harbour Seals From a query on the Greenlandic name for Harbour Seal, qasigiak (truncated: qasigi), 89 positions were extracted from the database covering all place names in Greenland (Table 2, Figure 5). Of these the majori- ty (85) were situated on the west coast (12 were from Upernavik, 5 from Qeqertarssuaq, 4 from Ilulissat, 3 from Qasiaanguit, 5 from Aasiaat, 14 from Kangaatsiaq, 3 from Sisimiut, 7 from Maniitsoq, 7 from Nuuk, 6 from Paamiut, 9 from Qaqortoq, 1 from Narsaq and 6 from Nanortalik) and the rest were from Ammassalik municipality. We found information in the literature on only 4 of the 89 localities. An addi- tional 21 place names in Ammassalik were identified from a search for qittalivaq (truncated: qitta), the local Ammassalik name for Harbour Seal (Table 3, Figure 4). For Ittorqortoormiit a slightly different word, qasi- iaq (truncated: qasii), was used but no place names were found. The fact that no place names were found in either Avanersuaq or Ittorqortormiit can be inter- preted to indicate that the Harbour Seal has never been common in these areas. Aerial survey Aerial surveys was conducted in July and August 1992 (Teilmann 1993*) and August 1993 (Mosbech and Boertmann, unpublished data from aerial survey of birds, Greenland Environmental Research Institute). Nineteen known Harbour Seal haulout sites were overflown, 14 in 1992 and 5 in 1993. Seven of these w
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