122 HABITS OF THE ALASKAN SEAL. 



Feeding. and whites wlio have been long resident on tlie 



Pribilof Islands.^ 

 Mingling witii When the rookeries become disorsranized, the 



the cows. 



bachelors, no longer fearing the bulls, which 

 possess great ferocity during the rutting season, 

 even attacking man,^ move down onto the breed- 

 ing grounds, and pups, cows, and bachelors 

 mingle togetlier indiscriminately.^ 

 isiauds.^*"'"^ ^'^™ Here the bachelors remain until the time of 

 their departure, which generally takes place at 

 the same time the cows^ and pups leave the 

 islands, though a few bachelors always are found 

 after that period.^ 



MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



The Alaskan seal herd is migratory from 

 necessity, for when the weather has been par- 

 ticularly mild during certain winters seals have 

 been found on land and in the vicinity of the 

 islands the year round.*' An examination of the 

 table showing the annual killing of seals on St- 

 Paul Island for several years proves conclusively 



1 Karp Buterin, Vol. II, p. 103; Nicoli Krukoif, Vol. II, p. 133; 

 JolinFratis, Vol. II, p. 108; Daniel Webster, Vol. II, p. 180; J. C. 

 Redpath, Vol. II, p. 149; Kerrick Artomanoff, Vol. II, p. 100. 



2 J. Stanley Brown, Vol. II, p. 14. 



3 J. Stanley Brown, Vol. II, p. 16. 

 " H. H. Mclntyro, Vol. II, p. 41. 



6 Tables of killing on St. Paul Island, Vol. IT, p. 114. 



6H. IT. Mclntyrc, Vol. II, p. 41; Charles Bryant, Vol. II, p. 5. 



