324 KEPOUT OF BRITISH COMMISSIONERS. 



Index to report of Behring Sea Commission, etc. — Coiitiuued. 



Diseases of fur-seal (see also Epidemics) 



Distances cows go to feed. Various statements as to. . 

 Distribution of seals at sea 



Aflected by winds and currents 



Charts 111 and IV 



Means taken to ascertain 



Various observations on 



Drives — 



Cause fright and distress 



Cruelty of 



Large number of seals rejected from, as unkillable. 



Length of, on Commander Islands 



" of, on Pribylotf Islands 



Mr. Gofl's opinion on 



Mr. Palmer's oj)inion on 



Mortality caused by excessive 



Professor Elliott's opinion on 



Eecommeudations as to regulation of 



Vital energy of seals impaired by 



Waste of seal life in 



Weakness of seals after 



M. 



Early Explorations in Behring Sea — 



Keferences to fur-seals in accounts of 



Elliott, Professor — 



Observations on death of seals from natural causes 



" on driving 



" on interrelation between Pribyloff and Com- 

 mander seals 



" on proportion of males to females 



" on seal life 



Epidemics {see also Diseases) — 



At Cape of Good Hope 



Evidence — 



Circular of inquiry to Governments 



List of persons and Governments supplying 



Replies of Governments 



Excrement — 



Absence of, noted 



None on rookeries 



Extent of ground occupied by seals 



Extermination {see alio Depletion) of Fur-seals — 



rinancially impossible 



F. 



Fairweather Ground — 



Seals most numerous on from 1st to 15th June 



Falkland Islands — 



Protective Regulations on 



Reply to inquiries 



Farallones Islands — 



Seals formerly bred on 



Females (see also Cows) — 



Destruction of, at Cape 



Excess of, owing to killing of males on shore 



Large number killed on islands in 1868 



Proportion of, in pelagic catch 



Fish- 

 All kinds of, eaten by seals 



Large number of, near rookeries 



Flag- 

 Distinctive, for pelagic sealers in Japan 



" recommended 



Flattery, Cape- 

 Catch of seals near 



Flower, Sir W. H.— 



Memorandum on classification of fur-seal 



Fogs- 

 Assistance to raiders 



Food— 



Absence of, in cows killed on Commander Islands 



Distance to which seals go for, from islands 



Fur-seal on Juan Fernandez reported to abstain from. 



" surface not bottom feeders 



Information gained on, from natives 



Migration habits depend on (see Migration) 



Of fur-seal 



Only bachelors and cows leave islands for 



Principal kinds of 



Rarely found in seals killed on islands 



Stones found in stomachs of seals 



Worms in stomachs of seals 



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