150 THE COWS. 



There is nothing on the beach for the old ones to eat, and they go 

 several miles from the rookeries out to sea to ob- 

 William Brennan,p.'6od- ^ajm food 



For the first Tew days, and possibly for a week or even ten days, the 



female is able to nourish her young' or offspring, 



j. Stanley Braini, p. 15. but she is soon compelled to seek the sea for food, 



that her voracious young feeder may be properly 



nourished, and this seems to be permitted on the part of the male, 



even though under protestation. The whole physical economy of the 



seal seems to be arranged for alternate, feasting and fasting, and it is 



probable that in the early days of its life the young seal might be 



amply nourished by such milk as its mother might be able to furnish 



without herself resorting to the sea for food. 



At the time I was on the islands T do not think there were any fish 



at all within 3 miles of the islands, and that the 



S. N. BuynitsJcy, p. 21. seals to feed had to go farther than that from 



land. This belief is founded on statements made 



me by natives on the islands, and also from the fact that fresh fish 



were seldom eaten upon the islands. 



I have also observed seals, presumably fishing, at distances vary- 

 ing from 10 to 150 miles from the island, and am 

 JoJmC.Canlivell,pA08. of the opinion that most of the seals seen at dis- 

 tances more than 10 miles from land during the 

 breeding season are females. 



About 80 per cent of the seals! caught in the Bering Sea were mothers 



in milk, and were feeding around the fishing-banks 



Jas. L. Carthcut,pA0Q. just north of the Aleutian Islands, audi got most 



of my seals from 50 to 1*50 miles from the seal 



islands. I don't think I ever sealed within 25 miles of the Pribylov 



Islands. 



We were hunting in the Bering Sea most of the time off Seventy-two 



and Unamak Pass, and we caught the seals as 



Chas. Chalall,p. 410. they weregoingto and from the Pribilof Islands to 



feed on the fishing grounds. We caught a great 

 many seals on the fishing banks just north and close by the Aleutian 

 Archipelago. 



It is my experience that fully 85 per cent of the seals I took in 

 Bering Sea. were females that had given birth to 



Christ. Clausen,p. 320. their pups, and their teats would be full of milk. 

 I have caught seals of this kind from 100 to 150 

 miles away from the Pribilof Islands. 



Nearly all the cows are in milk during the months of July and Au- 

 gust, while they are out seeking for food, and 1 

 Peter Collins, p. 413. have seen mothers with their breasts full of milk 

 killed 100 miles or more from the seal islands. I 

 know they go great distances in search of food. 



After the mother seals have given birth to their young on the islands, 

 she goes to the water to feed and bathe, and I 

 w. c. Coulson, p. 416. have observed them, not only around the islands, 

 but from 80 to 100 miles out at sea. 



