144 THE COWS. 



s. N. Buynitsky, p. 21. Very soon after a female kinds she gives birth 

 to a pup; I think that she never gives birth to 

 more than one. 



Almost immediately on landing the female drops her pup, it seldom 

 „ ___ . . being more than a day after they come on shore. 



anno) '* A "clap match" gives birth to only one pup, 



except in rare instances when she has two. I 



never saw but one case where a "clap match" had more than one pup 



at a birth. 



After this season and the migration following the three-year-old cow 

 lands again on the breeding rookery and gives 

 Saml. Falconer, p. 165. birth to one pup; two at a birth is as rare an oc- 

 currence as a cow bringing forth two calves, and 

 during my entire experience I never heard of this happening but once. 



The females soon after their arrival give birth to their young, and are 

 limited, as far as I have been able to observe from 

 J. M. Morton, p. 67. long and close observation of the rookeries during 

 the breeding season, to a single "pup." 



Adoiphm Sayera,p. 473. A seal never bears but one pup at a time. 



NOURISHES ONLY HER OWN PUP. 



Page 114 of The Case. 



E. Artomanoff, p. 100. The mother seals know their own pups by smell- 

 ing them, and no seal will allow any but her own 

 pup to suck her. 



Okas. Bryant, p. 5. A female seal does not suckle any pup save her 



own, and will drive away any other pups which ap- 

 proach her. 



S. N. Buynitshy,p. 21. She only suckles her own pup. 



I have never seen a " clap match" suckling more than one pup, and it 

 is my impression that a " clap match" would not 

 Geo. Comer, p. 598 (Ant- nurse an y p U p except her own, for I have seen her 

 throw other pups aside and pick out one particu- 

 lar one from the whole number on the rookery. 



And they can not help themselves, and they do not eat or drink 

 only as they suck the cows. ISTo cow will let au- 



Earp Buterin, p. 104. other pup suck her; every cow feeds her own 

 pup. 



It does not seem to me at all likely that a mother would suckle any 

 pup other than own, for I have repeatedly seen 



W.H.Dall, p. 23. a female select one pup from a large group and 



pay no attention to the solicitations of other 



