424 RESULTS. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken 

 t , _ „ 77 . in the Pacific and Bering Sea? — A. The majority 

 Luther r. *™«*&», f them are females. Last year I killed 72, and 



out of the 72 there was only 3 males. 

 Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? — A. 

 About 90 to 95 per cent. 



Off Cape Flattery there is hardly a dozen large males taken out of 

 every thousand large seals whose skins are 



Thos. Eraser, i>. 365. called first class; all the males taken here are 

 small ones. 



The next vessel I went on was the Vanderbilt. We did not enter the 

 Bering Sea on that trip either. We got about 350 

 Wm. Frazer, p. 427. sea ls, most all females. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 ^ „ , the Pacific and Bering Sea? — About 90 per cent 



i2 ® dward W. Funclce, p. of them were females. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken 

 were cows? — A. About 90 per cent. 



Jihn Fyfe, p. 429. We caught about 100 seals before entering the 



sea. Over 100 of them were cows. 



And caught 1,400 seals on that voyage. We caught some a little 

 ways from Victoria, and on the way up to the Ber- 

 Geo. Grady, p. 433. big Sea, but the most of them, about 1,200, we 

 caught in the Bering Sea. 1 was told by the men 

 that they were nearly all females, and I thought so too, from the milk 

 that I saw in their breasts when they were on the deck. I saw over a 

 hundred little pup seals taken out of the seals, which they threw over- 

 board. 



W. P. Griffith, p. 260. To the best of his knowledge and belief about 

 seven of every ten seals killed in pelagic sealing 

 are females. 



Females are most plentiful about the Vancouver coast from the mid- 

 dle of May to the end of June, very few others be- 

 A. J. Guild, p. 231. ing secured during that period, the males having 

 mostly gone north previously. 



Q. What sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by hunting 

 vessels in the North Pacific or Bering Sea? — A. 

 Chas. H. Ragman, p. Mostly females. The biggest percentage, I think, 

 ° ' are females. 



Q. What percentage of them are cows? — A. I couldn't tell you. 

 Q. Out of a hundred seals that you would catch ordinarily, what part 

 of them would be cows? — A. I am under oath, and I could not tell you 

 exactly. All I can say is, the greater portion of them. 



Think the seals taken by me have been about equally divided between 

 females and males. Have taken a number of 



Henry Raldane, p. 281. yearling seals and some two and three year old 

 males. Have never killed an old bull. 



