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The main herd of the fur-seals bound for the Pribilof Islands moves 

 through the passes of the Fox Islands of the Aleu- 

 tian chain, Uuiinak Pass being the eastern and C. H. Anderson, p. 205. 

 the Four Mountain Islands Pass the western 



bounds through which the seals move in large numbers. A few occa- 

 sionally go through Morzhovoi Pass on their way north, and in the pas- 

 sage south in the fall gray pups often stray into UnalaskaBay as far as 

 Captains Harbor, doubtless thinking it is one of the passes through the 

 group. I never saw a fur-seal in the water between Atka and the island 

 Attn. The natives along the northern shores of Bristol Bay have no 

 knowledge whatever of fur-seals, uor do those of St. Michaels appear 

 to be any better informed. 



The seals first pass into Bering Sea early in May and keep on arriv- 

 ing as late as the latter part of July, but most of them I think enter the 

 sea during the latter part of June or early in July. I do not know at 

 what times they leave, but have observed that it depends on the mild- 

 ness of the winter how soon they begin to depart. I can not distin- 

 guish the sex of seals in the water. Neither do I know the usual times 

 of tbe arrival and departure of the various categories to and from the 

 seal islands; do not know through which passes the bulls, bachelors, 

 and females usually move; but the westernmost passes are those most 

 frequented by gray pups in the fall on the way south. 



Seals are first seen at Prince William Sound N. w. Anderson, p. 223. 

 about May 1. 



Fur-seals usually appear in the vicinity of Mcoli Apohche et al., 

 Cooks Inlet early in the month of May. -P* 22i - 



The fur-seal goes away from the island in the fall or winter and he 

 returns in May or June, and I believe he will 

 haul up in the same place each year, for I partic- k. Artomanoff,p. 100. 

 ularly noticed some that I could tell hauled up 



in the same place for a number of years; and when we make drives, 

 those we do not kill, but let go into the water, are all back where we 

 took them from in a few hours. * * * 



When they come back to the islands they come from the south, and 

 I think they come from the North Pacific Ocean over the same track 

 that they went. The females go upon the rookeries as soon as they 

 arrive here, but the yearlings do not come on land until the last of 

 July, and yearling males and females herd together. I think they stay 

 in the water the most of the time the first year, but after that they come 

 regularly to the hauling grounds and rookeries, but do not come as 

 early in the season as they do after they are 2 years old. 



I start the season off Yakutat. The first seals arc seen about April 

 first. We follow the seals back and forth as 



Schools come along. Chas. Avery, p. 218. 



Seals are first seen and taken by me each year off Sitka Sound about 

 the middle of April. Have followed them as far 

 north as Cape Edward, where they disappear Adam Ayonkee, p. 255. 

 about June 30. They are constantly on the ad- 

 vance up the coast. 



