600 SUBJECT-INDEX. 



Bering Sea: Page. 



Fogs in 526 



Prohibition of pelagic scaling in 522 



San Diego enters, in 1883 335 



Sealing vessels did not enter, before decrease began 327 



Bering Sea Commission: 



Report of, as to cause of, decrease 301 



(See also American Bering Sea Commissioners.) 



Birth of pnps 101 



Aquatic, impossible 110 



Number at 143 



On kelp beds, impossible 121 



Time of .• 101 



Birthrate not affected by killing certain number of male seals 233, 234 



Black pups 104 



Breeding grounds 87 



Breeding seals protected from disturbance 230 



British furriers, testimony of, as to destruction of female seals 410 



Bulls 131 



Age 135-136 



Arrival of, at islands 131 



Arrival of the cows 133 



Coition 138 



Conflicts between 132,135,136 



Departure of, from islands 112 



Disorganization of the rookeries 141 



Fast inn of, on the rookeries 140 



Ferocity of 135 



Idle, vigorous 293 



Land on same rookery 133 



No lack of, <>n the rookeries 291 



Organizing their harems 134 



Power of fertilization 137 



Sufficient, preserved for breeding purposes 291 



Vi tal i ty of 142 



Weight 104, 140 



Canadian investment. (See Investment, Canadian.) 



Canoe used by Indian hunters 351 



Cape Horn rookeries 490 



Cape of Good Hope, protection of seals at * 488 



Catch of sealing vessels. (See Pelagic catch.) 



Cattle, seals managed like 217 



Cause of death of pups on the rookeries 146 



Cause of decrease. (See Decrease. ) 



Causes of migration of Alaskan herd 161 



Census of seal life impossible 88 



Classification : 



Of migrating seals. (See Migration: Manner of traveling.) 



Of pups 104 



Of seals 103 



Climate of Pribilof Islands 77 



Close season : 



As a means of protection of seal herd 517 



Coition : 



Does not take place in water 138 



The act of 139 



