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Hooded Seal
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- Length
- 7 feet.
- Description
- Front teeth four above and two below instead of six and four, as in all other true seals. Colour bluish-black above, lighter beneath, varied with whitish spots. Sometimes light-grayish with dark spots. Young in woolly stage pure white. Head of the male with a movable muscular bag, extending from the nose to behind the ears.
- Range
- Arctic seas, southward casually to the United States.
This and the harp seal are Arctic species frequenting the ice floes. The latter is largely killed by the sealers, but the present species is decidedly rare on the coast of North America.