124 HABITS OF THE ALASKAN SEAL. 



Causes. of food. About Terra del Fuego no ice forms, 



and no snow falls that remains. The tempera- 

 ture remains about the same summer and winter."^ 



Tiift coin-so. The fact exists, however, that the Alaskan seal 



herd is compelled to migrate. The course pur- 

 sued, which is confined to the eastern side of the 

 Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, is to a certain 

 extent conjectural, but sufiicient data have been 

 collected to state it with approximate accuracy. 

 On leaviu": the islands in November or Decem- 

 ber the seals turn southward, pass through the 

 channels of the Aleutian chain, and enter the 

 Pacific Ocean.^ The bulls after entering the 

 ocean remain in the waters south of the Aleutian 

 Islands and the Alaskan Peninsula, and in the 

 early spring may be found near the Fairweather 

 Ground. They are seldom seen below Baranoff 

 Island.^ Turning eastward after entering the 

 ocean* the remainder of the herd, cows, bachel- 

 ors and pups, begin to appear oif the coast of 

 California the latter part of December or first of 

 January.^ The seals now turn northward," fol- 

 lowing up the coast, twenty, thirty or more miles 



' J. W. Budington, Vol. II, p. 596. 



2 H. H. Mclntyre, VoL II, p. 42; T. F. Morgan, Vol. II, ]). 62. 



3 Report of Capt. C. L. Hooper to the Treasury Department, 

 dated .June 14, 1892, Vol. I, p. 504. 



" W. H. Dall, Vol. II, p. 24; Charles Bry.ant, Vol. II, p. 5. 



A. .1. Iloffuian, Vol. II, p. 44G; Alfred Irving, Vol. II, p. 386. 



« Charles Lutjeus, Vol. II, p. 458; II. II. Mclntyre, Vol. II, p. 42. 



