118 THE PUPS. 



I have never seen a pup in the water, and do not believe they can 

 be born in the water. If they are bom in the 

 Mies Nelson, p. 470. water they would drown. 



If for any reason the cow should not be able to reach the rookery in 

 time to give birth to her pup and it should be 



S.E.Nettleton,p.75. born in the water, the pup would of necessity be 

 drowned. 



I have never known or heard of pups being born in the water or on 

 the land anywhere in British Columbia, Queen 

 mila-ah, p. 288. Charlotte Islands, or Alaska. 



John Olsen, p. 471. I do not believe mothers give birth to their 



young in the water. 



Peter Olson, p. 288. I have never known of any fur-seal pup to be 



born in the water or haul up on the land anywhere 

 in Alaska. 



I have never killed an old bull or barren cow along the coast, neither 

 have I killed a cow in milk along the coast, or any- 



Oshj,p. 391. where else than in the Bering Sea. Small black 



pups are not seen in the water along the coast. 



I have visited the different islands in the sound, and never knew any 

 fur-seal to be born in the water or on any of the 

 Eesth fiileij,p. 252. islands in southeastern Alaska. 



Pups are not born in water. In some cases females far advanced 

 in pregnancy haul up on coast to give birth; 



W. Roberts, p. 242. but otherwise seals do not stop, except at Pribilof 

 Islands. 



I have never seen nor heard of a fur-seal pup being born in the 

 water, or on the rocks, on any part of the coast 



Bon dtus, p. 242. of Alaska, but have heard that seal are born on 



the Pribilof Islands. 



Never knew any fur-seal pups to be born in the water or anywhere 

 else in Alaska. Have heard that they are born 

 Schkatatin, p. 243. on the Pribilof Islands. 



In my judgment, and from my knowledge of the habits and conditions 



of seal life, I would state that a pup born in the 



B. F. Scribner, p. 89. water would certainly perish, and I never saw 



during my experience a pup land on the island 



with the females when they arrived in the early summer, and I never 



heard of such a case. 



It is my belief that a pup born in the water would drown, for I 



am convinced from statements made me by the 



L. G. Shepard, p. 189. natives and those thoroughly familiar with 



seal habits that a pup for the first weeks of its 



life is unable to swim. 



