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FUR-SEAL HEED OF ALASKA. 



depicted the positions of the bulls found, 

 with the exact number present when the 

 respective counts were made. The num- 

 ber found was fewer than reported the pre- 

 ceding year, and verified the counts of the 

 agent at that time. 



"In regard to Uncinaria, Mr. Marsh, al- 

 though on the rookeries daily from June 6 

 until July 28, found not a single case. At 

 the latter date the further disturbance of 

 the rookeries was prohibited, bj^ order of 

 Mr. Sims, on account of the activity dis- 

 l^layed by the Japanese sealers in the vi- 

 cinity of the islands. No naturalist has 

 since visited the Pribilofs." 



The last search for this "scourge" of 

 Jordan's invention was made by Assistant 

 Agent James Judge, who, in his report for 

 1909, dated March 8, 1910, says (p. 1173, 

 Appendix A): 



"Early in October, assisted by the na- 

 tives, I made the regular enumeration of 

 dead pups, a detailed account of which 

 was forwarded Mr. Lembkey October 8, 

 1909. Dr. Mills and I autopsied a number 

 of the dead from each rookery, the total 

 aggregating 23. In making these post- 

 mortems, the stomachs, livers, hearts, and 

 lungs were cut into, and about 1 foot of the 

 large and from 3 to 5 feet of the small in- 

 testine carefully examined. The autop- 

 sie.^ showed that death resulted in 20 cases 

 from starvation, in 1 from pneumonia, and 

 in 1 from some cause unknown. One of 

 pups autopsied was killed because found 

 suffering and nearly blind from a disease 

 of the eyes. The only parasites discov- 

 ered were small threadlike worms found 

 in the trachea of a pup from the reef. 

 These parasites, together with the diseased 

 eyes above noted, were sent to Mr. Chi- 

 chester for further investigation. Dr. 

 Stiles, to whom the worms were forwarded 

 determined that they were a new species 

 of the genus Halarchne." (Hearing No. 

 14, p. 945, July 27, 1912, H. Com. Exp. 

 Dept. C. and L.) 



