value. Some in ages 6-15 years have a market 

 value equivalent to about 75 percent of that of 

 the average male skin. 



3. Eye lens weight can be used to identify 

 the ages of fur seals through age 2 only. 



4. The black birth coat of fur seal pups is 

 replaced by the silvery pelage of the adult 

 about 13 weeks after birth. 



Other Wildlife Species 



1. Eighty-one sea lion pups were tagged on 

 Walrus Island in 1963. 



2. Three dead whales and one walrus drifted 

 ashore on the Pribilof Islands in 1963. 



3. A Coast Guard helicopter was used to 

 search offshore areas of St. Paul Island, 

 6 July 1963, for survivors of a 1959 transplant 

 of sea otters and to make aerial photographs 

 of the reindeer herd. No sea otters were seen. 

 The total count of reindeer on the photo- 

 graphs was 537 compared to 550 counted from 

 the ground a month earlier. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The research staff has had the cooperation 

 of C. Howard Baltzo, Program Director; 

 Howard Euneau, St. Paul Island Manager; 

 Roy D. Hurd, St. George Island Manager; 

 A. R. Williams, Management Staff Officer 

 (former St. George Island Manager); Bertel W. 



Johnson, Management Staff Officer; and Stuart 

 P. Davey, Wildlife Management Biologist, 

 Pribilof Islands, who also supervised year- 

 ling tagging and surveys and contributed the 

 sections of this report dealing with these 

 subjects. 



LITERATURE CITED 



ALLEN, DURWARD L. 



1954. Our wildlife legacy. Funk and Wag- 

 nails, New York, x + 422 p. 

 BAUER, RICHARD D„ ANCEL M. JOHNSON, 

 and VICTOR B. SCHEFFER. 

 1964. Eye lens weight and age in the fur 

 seal. Journal of Wildlife Management, 

 vol. 28, no. 2, p. 374-376. 

 BAUER, RICHARD D., RICHARD S. PETER- 

 SON, and VICTOR B. SCHEFFER. 

 1964. Age of northern fur seal at comple- 

 tion of its first molt. Journal of 



Mammalogy, vol. 45, no. 2, p. 299- 

 300. 

 ROPPEL, ALTON Y., ANCEL M. JOHNSON, 

 RICHARD D. BAUER, DOUGLAS G. CHAP- 

 MAN, and FORD WILKE. 



1963. Alaska fur seal investigations, 

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 Fish and Wildlife Service, Special Scien- 

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 SNEDECOR, GEORGE W. 



1956. Statistical methods. 5th ed. Iowa State 

 College Press, Ames, Iowa, 385 p. 



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