FUR SEALS AND OTHER LIFE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, 1914. 69 



Measurements of j-year-old maUt, with weights of skins, St. Paul Island, July i, IQ14. 



Tag No. 



5576 



SS78 



5579 



5581 



5582 



5585 



5587 



5588 



5589 



S590 



SS92 



5593 



SS94 



SS9S 



5596 



5597 



5598 



5599 



5600 



5601 



5602 



5603 



5604 



560s 



5606 



5607 



5608 



5609 



5610 



5612 



5613 



5614 



5615 



s6j6 



5617 



Average 



Length of 

 body in 

 inches.** 



.,1. ^ sKm. 

 millimeters. 



47 

 46 

 47K 

 AS'A 



48 



47 



46 



46 



46K 



46M 



SO 



49 



46 



46 



48K 



48H 



49J< 



48K 



46 



48M 



51 



48H 



i2% 

 47K 



So'i 

 50>4' 



48K 



46,'4 



47 



48K 



47M 



47K 



47K 



49 



48 



185 

 182 

 188 

 186 

 194 

 197 

 192 

 189 

 18s 

 184 

 185 

 198 

 189 

 1S7 

 189 

 191 

 18S 

 197 

 r88 

 184 

 186 

 197 

 192 

 194 

 186 

 196 

 194 

 196 

 193 

 188 

 195 

 190 

 183 

 187 

 182 



Lbs. Oz. 

 6 4H 



6 



2K 



4K 



4 



7 



SH 



14>i 



I'A 

 iiK 



3 



'A 



2K 

 4 



3 

 4 

 2K 



o These measurements were taken with a steel tape stretched over the back of the animal from the tip of nose to the root of 

 tail. Measurements taken with calipers give slightly smaller figures. 



THE 4- YEAR OLD BACHELORS. 



The 4-year-olds associate with the younger bachelors on the hauling grounds, and 

 though some of them may be distinguished by their dark breasts and occasionally by 

 an incipient "wig," as a class they differ from the 3-year-olds mainly in slightly increased 

 size. 



Only a few 4-year-olds were killed in 1914, and most of these had their skulls so 

 badly shattered that they were not preserved. The data as to 4-year-olds, therefore, 

 are somewhat meager. In the case of five examples they are as follows: 



Measurements of 4-year-old males, with weights of skins, IQ14. 



Tag No. 



Length of 



animal in 



inches. 



Length of 



skull in 



millimeters. 



Weight of 

 skin. 



s8o2 

 5803 

 5804 

 5807 

 s8o8 



58 



Si'A 



Sl!i 



56'i 



52 



205 

 208 

 207 

 204 



Lbs. Oz. 



8 13K 



8 y, 



9 5 



8 i\i 



8 8Ji 



