460 RESULTS. 



We captured about 4,700 seals, most all of wliieli were cow seals 

 giving milk. The majority of the seals we caught 



Osly, p. 391. in the Bering Sea were cows that had given birth 



to their young. We captured these at a distance 

 of about 100 miles away from the Pribilof Islands. 



About four years ago I went to Behring Sea as a hunter in the seal- 

 ing schooner Challenger, Williams, master. We caught about 2,000 

 seals, most of which were cows in milk. 



The seals taken in Bering Sea are nearly all grown. We get but 



very few young seals. I think we catch in Bering 



TVm. rarkcr, p. 344. Sea more males in proportion to females than we 



do on the coast. We catch a good many females 



in Bering Sea that have given birth to their young on the islands and 



were in milk. I have caught plenty of cow seals m milk a hundred 



miles or more from the islands, but seldom get any that have a pup in 



them in those waters. 



We entered the Bering Sea about the 15th of August through the 

 Unimak Pass and captured therein 1,404 seals, 

 Chas. Peterson, p. 345. most of which were cows in milk, On that voy- 

 age we caught female seals in milk over 80 miles 

 from the rookeries, where they had left their young. * * * 



I have seen the deck almost flooded with milk while we were skinning 

 the seals. We entered the sea and secured about 10 seals, all of which 

 were females in milk. 



The seals we captured in Bering Sea were fully 80 per cent females 



that had given birth to their young. A fact that 



Edwin P. Porter, p. 317. I often noticed was that their teats would be full 



of milk when I skinned them, and I have seen 



them killed from 20 to 100 miles from the seal islands. 



Q. How do you know that the marauders kill females principally 1 ? — 



A. I know that the females, after giving birth to 



j.c.Pedpath,p.uo. their young on the rookeries, frequent the open 



sea in search of food, whereas the males frequent 



the hauling grounds or waters immediately around it. At various 



times I have scon skins which were seized by the cutters from the 



poachers, and they were substantially female skins. 



I have been in Bering Sea but a part of one season. Of the seals 

 r „ T , , , OAO taken about one- third were males.one-third females 



JJ. L oberts, p. 242. . ,. . , , ', ,. 



with young, one-third barren and yearlings. 



I have taken nursing females when as much as 100 miles from Pribi- 

 lof Islands. 



I estimate that the seals killed by pelagic hunters are at least 90 per 



cent females; this estimate is based on the great 



T. F. Ryan, p. 175. number of motherless pups I have observed on 



the rookeries, and also on statements made to me 



by many engaged in pelagic sealing whom I met and conversed with 



at Unalaska. 



