208 MIGRATION OF HERD. 



Nor have I ever heard of any fur-seal hauling up on the land any- 

 where in Alaska. I have not seen a fur-seal within 

 Alf. 7ohansen,p.S69. five miles of land along the Alaskan coast. 



I have never seen any fur-seal in the inland waters of this part of 

 Alaska, nor have I ever heard of any being there 

 Paul Young,}). 292. from the people of my tribe. Have never known 

 any fur-seal to haul up on the land. 



Walter Young, p. 303. Never known any fur-seals to haul up on the 

 land in Alaska or British Columbia. 



I have never known the seals to haul out upon 

 Hish YuUa,p. 398. the land along this coast and give birth to their 

 young. 



I never have seen or heard of a place along the 

 Thos. Zohwks, p. 398. coast where the seals haul out upon land. 



For many years it has been known that fur seals breed at Guadalupe 



Island, where formerly large numbers were killed 



Dr. J. A. Allen, Thn,. aimua rjy f or their skins. Two thousand were 



Gill and Dr. C.U Ma-- gecured ag 1; , te ., s 1883 gince wbich time sinall 



i (tun, i oi. -i, p. Jou. T 



numbers have been taken nearly every year. In- 

 asmuch as the Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is not known 

 to breed south of the Pribilof Islands, but oceans in winter off the 

 coast of northern California and passes north in the spring, it seemed 

 important to determine the species of fur-seal inhabiting Guadalupe 

 Island. For this purpose an expedition was sent to said island by the 

 direction of Dr. 0. Hart Merriam in May, 1892, in charge of Mr. C. II. 

 Townsend, an assistant of the United States Fish Commission. Seven 

 fur-seals were seen near the island and one was shot by Mr. Townsend, 

 but it sank before it could be recovered. The visit was made too early 

 in the season to find the seals on the shore. A beach on Guadalupe 

 Island was visited where it was known that a large number of fur-seals 

 had been killed a few years previously and four skulls were there ob- 

 tained. We have carefully examined these skulls and find them to 

 belong to a species of Ar otocephalus, a very different kind of fur-seal 

 from that found in Bering Sea, the well-known Callorhinus ursinus. 



Sometimes during a heavy storm a few seals will be driven on 

 shore for a short time, but will not stay but a few 

 Wispoo, p. 396. hours. 



Till: RUSSIAN HERD. 



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In summer the two herds remain entirely distinct, separated by a 

 Eeport of the imerioan water interval of several hundred miles; and in 

 Commissioners) p. 323 of their winter migrations those from the Pribilof 

 Tin cas,'. Islands follow the American coast in a southeast- 



erly direction, while those from the Commander and Kurile islands fol- 

 low the Siberian and Japan coasts in a southwesterly direction, the two 

 herds being separated in winter by a water interval of several thousand 

 miles. 



