80 ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



females to a bull tlian the average. In correcting tlie 

 "omission" of tlie Commissioners, the United States quote 

 only that part of the additional matter which refers to the 

 exceptional cases of very large numbers of females. 



Moreover, the statement that Mr. Elliott's estimate was 

 not entirely satisfactory to himself, appears from the first 

 part of the quotation given by the British Commissioners, 

 as to the difilculty he found in making an estimate. The 

 entire passage is here cited, the italicized parts being those 

 quoted by the British Commissioners. The words in 

 brackets are those which are omitted from the quotation as 

 given in the United States Counter Case: 



Elliott, TJnited / found it an exceedingly difficult matter to satisfy myself as to a fail 

 states Census general average nuniher of cows to each hull on the rookery; but after pro- 

 Keport, p. . tracted study, I think it will be nearly correct when I assign to each male 

 a general ratio of from ff teen to twenty females at the stations nearest the 

 water; and for those back in order from that line to the rear, from five to 

 twelve; [but there are so many exceptional cases,] so many instances 

 where forty-tive and fil'ty females are all under the charge of one male ; 

 [and then, again, where there are two or three females only, that this 

 question was, and is, not entirely satisfactory in its settlement to my 

 mind] . 



It is next alleged, that the Eeport of the British Com- 

 missioners — 



fails to give any testimony to show how many females constituted a 

 harem in 1891, &c. 



Page 74. 95 It will bc fouud, however, that the Commissioners 



nn^sion^s^ R^ - givc a Statement of this kind in the very paragraph 



port, para. 55. following that to whicli refereuce is here made by the United 



ter-casl, Appen- Statcs. Furthcr evidcncc of the same kind, for 1892, is con- 



dix, Toi.i, p. 140. tained in Mr. Macoun's Eeport. 



Page 75. It is here stated, in the United States Counter-Case, in 



connection with the alleged ''surplus of virile males," that 



a photograph, by Mr. Stanley-Brown (which is reproduced 



in the Appendix to the Counter-Case), shows a — 



number of vigorous bulls located on the breeding-grounds unable to 

 obtain consorts. 



An insjiection of the photograph referred to will show 

 how insufficient the evidence it affords is. It shows a few 

 bulls hauled out at the back of the breeding-ground, but 

 with them are some smaller seals, which may or may not 

 be females. 



Mr. Macoun, in fact, states that at North-east Point (a 

 part of which is shown by Mr. Stanley-Brown's photograph) 

 there were, in his opinion, more old bulls than on all the 

 other rookeries combined, but that even there the number 

 was not great, and many of those characterized by Mr. 

 Stanley-Brown as "old bulls" — 



British Coun- showed the "grey wig," which proved them to b^uot yet fully grown, 

 ter-Case, Apjieu- while others were, without doubt, worn-out old bulls, no longer lit for 

 14o'l7l '' ^'^' service. That the majority of them were in this condition is proved 

 ' ' by the fact that though attempts at service by "grey wigs" were not 



infrequent, I never saw one of these old bulls pay the slightest atten- 

 tion to any females that might pass near them. 



TJnited States Profcssor Evcrmaun's couut of part of ouc of the smallest 

 App"eudiix, ''pp'^^^^^^^'i^^ ^^ further referred to to show an abundance of 

 264, 205. bulls, in proportion to the number of females. 



