608 SUBJECT-INDEX. 



Pups — Continued. Page. 



Tameness of. (See Management, control, and domestication.) 



Vitality of 130 



Weight 104 



Pups, dead : 



Do not die of epidemic 47G-480 



Died of starvation 474 



Increase of 466 



Inspected by British Bering Sea Conimissioiiers 471,172 



Number of, prior t< > 1 884 468 



Number of, in 1891 470 



Ou the rookeries 466 



Time of appearance of 469 



Pup seals. (iSeePups.) 



Raids: 



Difficult to make. (See Decrease, raids not the cause.) 



Number of on rookeries 297 



On rookeries not a cause of decrease 296 



Reason pregnant females are taken by pelagic sealers 448 



Redriving 247 



Male seals not injured by 247-250 



Regulations: 



Against uso of firearms. (See Management, disturbance of breeding 



seals.) 

 As to number killed. (See Management, number killed.) 



Protecting breeding seals from molestation 223 



Of 1869... 28,230 



Only bachelor seals killed on the islands 228 



Replies of scientists. (See Protection.) 



Reproduction. (See Coition.) 



Results of pelagic sealing 366 



Rille. C See Firearms.) 



Rookeries 87, 88 



Antarctic, depletion of 483 



Breeding grounds 87 



Condition of, show decrease 91, 269 



Disorganization of 141 



Hauling grounds 88 



Management of. (See Management 



On Cape Horn 490 



On Lobos Islands 490 



Raids on. ( See Pa ids.) 



Russian method of taking seals, improvement over 251 



Russian seal herd: 



Decrease of 487 



Distinction between, and Alaskan 92 



Does not mingle with Alaskan herd 99 



Migration of 208 



Winters in Sea of Okhotsk 209 



Salting the skins 256 



San Diego. Enters Bering Sea in 1883 335 



Schooners. (See Vessels.) 



Seal, Alaskan. (See Alaskan seal herd.) 



Seal herds other than Alaskan seal herd. (See Other seal herds.) 



Sealers, white. (See Pelagic sealers.) 



Seal Islands. (See Pribilof Islands.) 



