harbo(u)r seal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small seal, Phoca vitulina, common on the East Coast.

Quotations

1832

There are apparently five or six varieties of seals that frequent the coasts of America . . . [including] the harbour seal. . . .

1891

The common harbor seal was there all the year round.

1958

Apart from the grey seal, the harbour seal is the only member of the tribe that ordinarily spends the summer in southern Canada.

the fur of this seal.

1908

There is reason to believe that other species of seals besides the harbour seal are embraced in the foregoing sales statement.

1933

It is an odd thing that Labrador people never have fur coats, unless they be of harbor seal which is stiff and bristly. . . .