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from land.^ The males pass much farther from TLe course. 

 the shore than the females, and travel more rap- 

 idly toward the islands.'^ The herd spreads along- 

 the coast in a long, irregular body, continually 

 advancing northward until they begin to enter 

 Bering Sea in May and June, throngh the east- 

 ern passes of the Aleutian Islands, seldom going 

 west of Four Mountain Pass, but the last of the 

 herd do not leave the Pacific until July." The 

 cows, however, are practically out of the Pacific 

 Ocean by the middle of June."^ A chart showing 

 this migration has been prepared from the data 

 contained in the depositions herewith submitted.^ 

 The manner of traveling of the seals is 

 divided by the pelagic sealers into different 

 heads, namely, '"sleeping," when a seal rests and 

 sleeps on its back on the surface of the water eiiug. 

 with only its nose and the tips of its hind flippers 

 protruding from the waves ;*^ "finnnig," when it 

 lies on its back gently moving its flippers;^ "rol- 



1 Britisli Bluo Book, U. S. No. 3 (1892), C-6635, p. 183; Anuual 

 Rei^ort of tlio Departmcut of Fisheries, Dominion of Cauada 

 (1886), p. 267. 



'^Article by Dr. Allen, Part III, Vol.1, p. 405; Isaac Licbes, 

 Vol. II, p. 454. 



- Charles J. Hague, Vol. II, p. 207 ; C. H. Anderson, Vol. II, }i. 205. 



•• H. H. Mclnlyre, Vol. II, p. 42; Watkins, Vol. II, p. 395; Alfred 

 Irving, Vol. II, p. 386. 



" See also Chart of Migration, Portfolio of maps and charts; 

 British Blue Book, No 3 (1892), C- 6635, p. 183. 



« A. B. Alexander, Vol. II, p. 355. 



1 1bid., Vol. II, p. 355. 



