THE FUR SEALS OP THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Nearly all the living pups in a healthy condition, have the inside of the mouth 

 and teeth largely stained with dull yellow. The starving ones have the mouth white. 

 This same peculiar color is seen in the mouths of bulls. 



The total of dead pups for this patch is 95. 



Next follows a short beach piled with seaweed. Evidently there is a strong tide 

 running around a large rock in the sea. On this beach there are 93 dead pups washed 

 up by the surf. They are mostly fairly fresh. Some are perhaps drowned, but the 

 bulk have been washed off the rocks farther along and thrown up here. 



The next patch is located on a rocky prominence covered with large bowlders. 

 On this sort of rookery ground the bulls leap from one large rock to another and 

 therefore rarely hit the pups. There are few dead pups; 29 in all. 



Then follows a hauling ground which extends back from a small sandy beach. 

 On this beach there are 19 pups washed up. The sand here is true sand, not lava. 

 It must have been washed from some distance, but is characteristic of a number of 

 the smaller beaches also further around the head. One dead bull and 2 cows. 



For the present the large patch at the base of Hutchinson Hill is omitted, as is 

 also the narrow strip extending to the hauling ground south of the hill. Beyond 

 Hutchinson Hill the count is resumed. There is a long sandy beach covered with 

 coarse bowlders. On this beach are 31 dead pups which have been washed up, 

 together with 2 dead cows. One of the 2 dead cows, which was fresh, was skinned for 

 museum purposes. On examination it was found to be in a hearty condition. A 

 spear had pierced the skin of the breast, entering the mammae, which were full of 

 milk. On removing the skin of the head it was found to be badly contused as if from 

 a severe blow. The lungs were badly congested; the stomach empty. It is probable 

 that the cow had been speared, then clubbed, and getting away, she was finally 

 drowned in the surf and had been washed up by it. 



MOR.TOVI. 



In the first patch on the east side Mr. Clark counted 103 dead pups and 1 dead 

 cow. A pup in the water was seen playing with a short stick, lifting it up and 

 shaking it as a dog might. 



A pup was found imprisoned in the crevice between two rocks. Its flippers were 

 white as if bleached; it showed the grayish tinge of age, but seemed well nourished. 

 It was found to be attached by an unusually large umbilical cord to a rotten placenta 

 which was caught in the rocks, holding the little fellow prisoner. The cord was cut 

 and the pup placed on a flat rock. He had never used his flippers, and could not get 

 about. He had evidently been well fed. 



A large and well-nourished pup was found curled up under the lee of a rock in a 

 position where it could not have been stepped upon. It was found on opening it that 

 the body cavity was full of milk, which poured out when an opening was made. The 

 stomach was burst open. Evidently the pup had been stepped on after taking his 

 meal, and had crawled among the rocks to die. 



On a rock were a lot of spewing of fish bones as if vomited by a seal. A small 

 pup was seen lying asleep with an injured eye. On approaching closer to examine it 

 the pup started up and a stream of pus gushed out of the eye socket. 



