MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 129 



north; these he believes to have been separated Herd fioes not 



enter iulaud wa- 



from their mothers, and seek shelter and restters. 

 from the storm on the island.^ Pud Zaotchnoi, 

 one of the Aleut chiefs at i^.tka Island (near the 

 center of the Aleutian chain), says that fur-seals 

 never rest on the shores in that region,^ It has 

 been supposed that the fur-seals which formerly 

 frequented the Guadalupe Islands and the coast 

 of southern California were a portion of the 

 Pribilof Islands herd which remained south to 

 breed; a recent examination of specimens by 

 Dr. Allen, Dr. Merriam, and Mr. Theodore Gill, 

 all naturalists of repute, has proven that the 

 Guadalupe Island fur-seal belongs to a species of 

 the genus ArctocepJmhis, which is entirely distinct 

 from the Callorhinus urshms, and have united in 

 a paper to that effect.^ It is therefore certain 

 that the Pribilof herd do not breed or land at 

 any other point except the Pribilof Islands. 



The Russian seal herd on leavinor- the Com- The Russian 

 mander Islands instead of turning eastward, like 

 the Alaskan herd, turns westward,* entering the 



1 Ruth Burdukofski,Vol. II, p. 206. See also Paul Repin,Vol. II, 

 p. 207 ; S. Melovedoff, Vol. II, p. 209, and David Salaniatoff, Vol. II, 

 p. 209; Ivan Krnkoflf, Vol. II, p. 209. 



2 Vol. II, p. 213. See also Kassian Gorloi, Vol.11, p. 213. 



3 Article by Dr. Allen, Part III, Vol. I, p. 406; Statement by Dr. 

 Allen, Dr. Merriam, and Mr. Theodore Gill, Vol. I, p. 586. Seo 

 also Isaac Liebes, Vol. II, p. 455. 



■i Charles J. Hague, Vol. II, p. 207. 

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