9G HABITS OF THE ALASKAN SEAL. 



Does not ininsic ThesG two liercls of fur-seals do not intemiin- 



witii iiussitvu iierd. 



gle/ each keeping to its own side of Bering Sea 

 and the Pacific Ocean, and each following its 

 own course of migration.^ Dr. J. A. Allen, the 

 well known authority on Pinnipeds,* and Curator 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 says : '' The Commander Islands herd is evi- 

 dently distinct and separate from the Pribilof 

 Islands herd. To suppose that the two herds 

 mingle, and that the same animals may at one 

 time be a member of one herd and at another 

 time of the other, is contrary to what is known 

 of the habits of migrating animals in general."^ 

 Capt. Charles J. Hague, who since 1878 has 

 made about twenty voyages along the Aleutian 

 Islands from Unalaska to Attn, mostly in the 

 spring and fall of the year, states that he does 

 not remember ever having seen fur seals in the 

 water between Four Mountain Islands and Attn 



> Report of American Bering Sea Commissioners, j^osi, p. 323; 

 J. Stanley Brown, Vol.11, p. 12; Charles Bryant, Vol. II, p. 4; 

 C. A. Williams, Vol. II p. 537; Gustave Niebanm, Vol. 11, p. 78; 

 Arthnr Newman, Vol. II, p. 210; C. H. Anderson, Vol. II, p. 205. 



2 H. H. Melntyro, Vol. II, p. 12; C. M. Scammon, Vol. II, p. 474; 

 John P. Blair, Vol. II, p. 194. 



=* Article by Dr. Allen, Part III, Vol. I, p. 40(3; see also Report of 

 American Bering Sea Commissiouoi'S, j)os<, p. 323. 



* Dr. Allen, at the reqnest of the Uepartmcnt of State, has pre- 

 pared a paper on Pinnijiedia, Seal Hnnting in the Antarctic Re- 

 gions, the Alaska Seal Herd and Pelagic Sealing, which will be 

 found in Vol. I, p]). 3t)5-410, to which the attention of the Tribnnal 

 of Arbitration is especiaBy directed. 



