FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY. 99 
the occurrence, and a total of 46 were so recorded. Branded ani- 
mals were observed in nearly every drive. In the course of observa- 
tions made on the rookeries on St. George Island in 1916, cows 
bearing the 1912 brand were seen in the harems in considerable 
numbers. 3 
There were included in the 1916 shipment of sealskins from the 
Pribilofs 96 of these branded skins. ‘ After they had been received 
by Funsten Bros. & Co. at St. Louis additional records were made. 
The following table shows certain data secured at the Pribilof Islands 
and at St. Louis in regard to them and supplements similar data 
published in the corresponding report on the Alaska Fisheries and 
Fur Industries in 1915: 
