FEEDING EXCURSIONS. 153 



In fact it is a common thing to see squads or herds going out and com- 

 ing in at various times during the day. Food around the immediate 

 vicinity of the seal islands is at the best of times scarce, and as the 

 rookeries increase in the number of their occupants it becomes neces- 

 sary for them each day to go farther and farther. Distance, however, 

 is no particular object to them, as they are very speedy travelers. 



After the young is a few days old the mother- Wm. Hermann, p.U6. 

 travels out to the fishing banks to feed. 



I observe that nursing cows range from 60 to 80 miles from the Pribi- 

 lof Islands to feed, and were always most numer- 

 ous in a southerly and westerly direction from Norman Hodgson, p .367. 

 them. 



The majority of seals killed in Bering Sea are females. I have 

 killed female seals 75 miles from the islands, that 

 were full of milk. J- Johnson, p. 331. 



I think many of the mother seals go from their breeding grounds on 

 the islands many miles into the Pacific Ocean in 

 search of food, often to a distance of 150 to ISO Jas. Kiernan,p. 450. 

 miles. They travel very fast, and it is on these 

 excursions that many of them are killed. 



Soon after a cow brings forth her young she goes into the water to 

 get food. I know from actual observation that 

 they go at least 20 miles from the islands, but Louis Kimmel, p. 174. 

 how much farther I am unable to state. 



As soon as the pups are a few days old the cows go into the sea to 

 feed and they stay out a little longer every time 

 they go until they will be away for a week at a Mcoli Krukoff, p. 133. 

 time. 



When the cow goes into the sea for food her stay there becomes 

 longer and longer as the season advances, until 

 at times she will be away for three or four days Aggei Kushen, p. 129. 

 at a time. 



In the Bering Sea I have noticed that in skinning seals milk would 

 run out of the teats of females who had given 

 birth recently to their young on the islands. I Andrew Laing, p. 335. 

 have caught this class of females from 75 to 100 

 miles from the Pribdof Islands. 



In killing seals in the Bering Sea, during the months of June, July, 

 August, and September, I noticed that a large 

 number of them were females and mothers giving Wm. H. Long, p. 458. 

 milk. I have killed mothers in milk all the way 

 from 10 to 200 miles off shore. 



In 1889 I hunted in the Bering Sea from 80 to 100 miles off the Pribi- 

 lof Islands. Two-thirds of fur catch were cows 

 in milk Thos. Lowe, p. 371. 



