ALLEN : mammalia: otariid^. hi 



..Mr. Townsend sailed from San Diego on May '4, .892, «aehed 



vTa:. few vears previously, and here four skulls were obtained. These 



TZt'l ?usplfed^o\.ong to the ^'^^^ff^JX 

 note to this effect was pubhshed by us in the "Fur Seal A b,trat,on^Ap 



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■Guda'upe island is tholughly volcan.cand there a-av^s by the dozen 

 alone every mile of the shoreline which were once the retreats ot thous 

 and" of f"r seals. On the afternoon of May 17 we saw four sea s swn^- 

 ands ot lur seals. believed to be fur seals, 



Tu^four^o? :rw thn ilhTotinllstLe, although we tried for an hour. 

 The other two^een later, were undoubtedly Z«/<,//««. No seals wha - 

 ever were found on the rocks. ... On May 22 we examined SW Point 

 and the three islands or rocks south of it. On the most southerly rock 

 ^elund a band of Z.^«. about thjty^in "-b., ^uled^^^^^^ ;- 



Hh-e-d r^^he sro-ni* mg to' oSe, u^ the west side of the island 

 about dgh miles, where we anchored. In the evening we visited the 

 sporwhere Borge and Sisson had killed two or three hundred fur seals 

 K Tien vearf before Only a few weather-worn skulls were found, 

 which ' h red fo ■ shipment to Washington. The next day May 



" welnled along shore, in the boat as usual, as far as the next pomt 

 somh of NW Point about six miles, the schooner keeping well off shore^ 

 At o A M near the outlying rocks off this point, we found what seemed 

 fo beaniale ur seal, perhaps about four years old, asleep on the water 

 'with WsTns held aloft'in tie manner so characteristic of these anmras^ 

 1 got a pretty fair shot with the rifle but missed. Half an hour later I 



