History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . Cranz, who says : All Sealsvary annually their colour till they are full grown, but no sort somuch as this [the Attarsoak], and the Greenlanders vary itsname according to its age. They call the foetus iblau ; in this statethese are white and woolly, whereas the other sorts are smootliand coloured. In the 1st year t is called Attanak, and t is acream-colour. In the 2d year Atteitsiak, then tis gray. Inthe 3d Aylektol;, painted. In the 4th Hilaktok, and in the5th year Attarsoak. Th
History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . Cranz, who says : All Sealsvary annually their colour till they are full grown, but no sort somuch as this [the Attarsoak], and the Greenlanders vary itsname according to its age. They call the foetus iblau ; in this statethese are white and woolly, whereas the other sorts are smootliand coloured. In the 1st year t is called Attanak, and t is acream-colour. In the 2d year Atteitsiak, then tis gray. Inthe 3d Aylektol;, painted. In the 4th Hilaktok, and in the5th year Attarsoak. Then it wears its half-moon, the signal Fabricius states that it is called during the first year Atdrak, * Probably parallel variations occur in Histriophoca of Greenland, English ed., vol. i, 1767, p. 124. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 633 and later in the same summer (after the first moult), Ataitsiak,by which name it is also called during the first winter; the sec-ond year it is called UtoTcditsidk; the third year Aylektok orAylcktungoak, and in the winter Aylekiylsiak; the fourth year it. retains the same name Agletok, also varied to Aglektorsoak, butafter the fourth moult takes the name MillaktoTc. Later it iscalled Atarsoak.* * Skrivter af , Bind i, Hefte 1, 1790, pp. 92-94. 634 PHOCA GRCENLANDICA HARP SEAL. Dr. Rink states that at the present day the Greenlanders, aswell as the Europeans, divide the Saddle-backs into four orfive different classes according to their age, but that in familiarlanguage they only distinguish by different names the full-grownanimals from the half-grown ones, the latter being called Blue-sides .* The young, when first born, are called by the NewfoundlandSealers White-Coats; later, during the first moult, Ragged-Jackets; when they have attained the black crescentic marksthey are termed Harps, or Sadlers, .and also BreedingHarps; the yearlings and two-year-olds are called YonugHarps .or Turning-Harps, and also B
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