160 THE BACHELORS. 



I have also observed that the male seals killed soon after they 

 come 1o the islands are fat and their stomachs 



C. L. Foivler, p. 26. filled with food, while those killed in the latter 

 part of the season are poor and lean and without 

 food in their stomachs. 



I do not think the bachelors go to feed from the time they haul out 



until they leave the islands in November, for I 



Jno. Fratis, p. 108. have observed the males killed in May are fat and 



their stomachs full of fish, mostly codfish, while 



the males killed in July and afterwards are poorer and poorer and their 



stomachs are empty. 



Of the stomachs of the killable seals, I may say that there is no de- 

 gree of regularity in what may be found in them; 

 TV. S. Hereford, p. 35. perhaps oftener nothing, many times a few worms, 

 frequently a few small stones, sometimes a quan- 

 tity of pea-soup-looking fluid, the result of the process of digestion, 

 while some may contain the remains of fish bones, kelp, etc. 



I think the bachelors do not eat from the time they arrive till they 



go away, and I think so because the seals killed 



Nicoli Krukoff, p. 133. in May and early June are fat and have plenty of 



food in their stomachs, while those killed later than 



June are poor and their stomachs are empty, and they get poorer and 



poorer until they go off in November. 



And I have found that the seals killed in May and early June were fat 

 and that their stomachs were full of food, princi- 

 Anton Melovedofl, p.lU. pally cod fish, and that later in the season they 

 were poor and had nothing in their stomachs. 



Young males killed in May and June when examined are found to be 



in prime condition, and their stomachs are filled 



J. C. Eedpath, p. 149. with fish — principally codfish — but those killed 



later in the season are found to be poor and lean 



and their stomachs empty, which shows that the males rarely leave the 



islands for food during the summer months. 



I have observed that the male seals taken in the forepart of the sea- 

 son, or within a few days after their arrival at 

 Dan'l Webster, p. 180. the islands, are fat and their stomachs contain 

 quantities of undigested fish (mostly cod), while 

 the stomachs of those killed in the latter part of the season are empty; 

 and they diminish in flesh until they leave the islands late in the sea- 

 son. 1 am of the opinion that while the female often goes long dis- 

 tances to feed while giving nourishment to her young, the male seals 

 of two years old and over seldom, if ever, leave the islands for that 

 purpose until they start on their migration southward. 



MINGLING WITH THE COWS. 

 Page 122 of The Case. 



From my observation as to the vitality of male seals I believe that 

 it is difficult to determine with absolute accuracy 



J. Stanley Brown, p. 14. the capacity of the bull seal for rookery service, 

 as it must in large measure depend upon the per- 



