REPORT OP BRITISH COMMISSIONERS. 



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



327 



Paragraph. 



Page. 



Killer- whales — 



Destruction of young seals by 



Killing of females at sea 



Pei-niissible, to preserve normal proportion of sexes 



Sur|)lus of fenink's renders iinutice less harmful 



Killing of Seals on Prib\ loli Isbnids— 



Average annual slaughter under United States management 

 too great 



Control of, by United States 



Evil etfects of 



Excessive in early Pussian period 



Immediate cause of danger to seal life 



Methods employed in, cruelty of (see Drives) 



" " theoretically good 



" " waste involved in 



Mr. Palmer on bad effect of 



Number killed, 1817-91 



Kegulations for, at different periods 



' ' difiiculty of 



Sudden incfease of, under United States management 



Suggested improvements in 



" proliiljition of, on one island 



" total prohibition of 



Killing on Breediiic. Ishuuls — 



Cause of de]deti(iu in Southern Hemisphere 



Only method ever employed in Southern Hemisphere 



Klawak — 



Seals taken by Indians of 



Kurile Islands — 



Sealing in the 



334-336 



77-80 

 80 

 79 



47-51, 662 



43 



35, 44, 45, 6()9 



40 



117 



on 



660 



74,75 



L.agoon Rookery on St. Paul Island 



Lampson, C. M., and Co. — 



Sale of skins in London 



Licences — 



Proposed issue of, to white hunters 



Lichen — 



Test of area of rookeries 



Limitation of Sealing by — 



Close season 



Number of seals taken (see Number Limit) 



Restricted area 



Lobos Islands — 



Fur-seal tisherv on 



Skins shipped from (1887-91) 



" sold in Loudon (1873-92) 



Total catcli of .seals on (1876-91) 



Little Eastern Rookery, St. George Island 



Loss of seals a t sea (see Pelagic Sealing) 



Lukannon and Ketavie Rookeries, St. Paul Island. 

 Lutkt! — 



Observations on killing of male seals 



Mactay, Mr. J. W. — 



Seals on coast of British Cohiiiibia 



Male Se.als (see Killingof Seals on I'ribylotf Islands). 

 Males- 

 Age of virility 



Danger to seal life if too many killed 



Decrease of, on islands 



Proportion of, to females 



Scarcitj'of, on islands, makes haljits of seals irregular 



Manatee (see Sea-Cow). 

 Management on — 



Commander, compared with that on Pribyloff Islands 



Pribyloft' Islands; insuliicient care taken till recently 



Maps (sec also Diagrams). 



1. Track Chart, sliowing route of British Commissioners. . . 



2. Resorts and migration routes of seals 



3. Area of seals, July and August 



4. " " August and .September 



5. Diagram showing number of seals killed, and price of 



skins 



Maynard, Lieutenant — 



Observations on seal life 



Report on Pribyloff Islands 



Meteorological observations taken in 1891 



39, 771 



36-38 



76 



659 



147, 148 



164 



121, 106-168 



117 

 151-160 



176 



250, 273 



380-382 



]:!0-i:!8 

 i:;o. i:;i, i;;; 

 130, 141-144 



257 

 77,81,82 



183-185 



287 



289 



71 



54 



434 



72, 427 

 7G 



187-189 



215-217 



169 

 215 

 215 

 215 



Facing 150 

 150 



" 150 

 150 



" 151 



815 

 219 



