186 MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



First seal are seen and taken by me about the middle of April of 

 each year. There are more or less of them on the 

 Michael Woosloot, p. coast till the 1st of July. First part of the season 

 274. they are plentiful, but towards the last they be- 



come scarce. Duriug the above-mentioned period 

 the seal are on the move to the westward. 



Have hunted fur-seals the last two years in Dixons Entrance and 

 around the Prince of Wales Island, between 

 Billy Yeltach y, p. 302. March and June. The seal leave here in June 

 and go north. 



Have always limited in Dixons Entrance and off* Prince of Wales 



Island. The seal make their appearance in March 



Hastings Yctluiow, p. and disappear in June, going north. The reason 



302. we don't hunt the seal in March is that the weather 



is so bad we can not go out iu our canoes. We 



consider May the best month for fur-seal hunting. 



Begin to hunt seal off San Francisco in February, and followed them 

 up the coast as far as Shumakin Islands, which 



Alf. Yohansen, p. 3G8. we reached the last of June. The seal all disap- 

 peared from there at this time. 



Paul Young, p.2d2. Seal make their appearance off Prince of 



Wales Islands in April. 



Always hunted in Dixons Entrance and off Prince of Wales Is- 

 land. The seal all disappear about the 1st of 



Walter Young, p. 303. June and gQ nQTt ^ j tuiuk# 



The cow seals are the first to leave the coast, but the young seals 



„. , , „„„ stay longer here, and are not all gone until in 

 Hish Tulla, p. 398. j jL & s 



I do not know through what passes of the Aleutian Islands the fur- 

 seal herds move into the Bering Sea, nor at what 

 Pud Zaotchnoi, p. 213. time they do so. I have seen so few fur-seals, and 

 never any but a few scattering gray pups, that I 

 am unable to form any ideas regarding the decrease of the fur-seal 

 species. 



The seals first appear off the cape about Christmas, but do not come 

 in the straits now like they used to, and they are 



Thos. Zohwlcs, p. 399. very shy and wild. They appear to be passing to 

 the northward, up the coast, and in July are all 

 gone. 



MANNER OF TRAVELING. 

 Page 125 of The Case. 



From their habits in the water the seals are known as "jumpers" 



or " breach ers " when they are moving through 



A. B. Alexander, p. 355. the water, "rollers" when they are lying idle on 



the surface and moved by every wave, "tinners" 



whenn they are resting and finning themselves with their fins, and 



