RESULTS. 205 



exhibits showins: plainly how, even in the Exaniinatiou of 



<^ i- •/ ' pelagic ciitcli o± 



dressed and dyed skins, the sex of the animal ■'^^'^^* 

 can be readily determined,^ and also, in the 

 cases of the female, whether the animal was in 

 a state of virginity, pregnancy, or maternity, 

 the comparative size of the nipples being the 

 test, A\^hicli in the case of the two skins of males 

 (bachelor and bull) are scarcely observable. 



Added to this testimony of experienced fur- Testimony of 



pelagic scalers. 



riers, a large number of those engaged in seal 

 hunting, whose depositions are appended hereto, 

 afiirm that the seals taken by them are princi- 

 pally females. Luther T. Franklin, a seal hunter 

 of three years' experience, states that about 

 ninety or ninety-five per cent of those secured 

 are females.^ Daniel McLean, an experienced 

 sealer, says that about ten in a hundred of the 

 seals taken are males.^ Alexander McLean, on 

 being asked the percentage of females in a catch, 

 replied: "Say I would bring two thousand seals 

 in here, I may have probably about a hundred 

 males; that is a large average."^ Charles Lut- 

 jens, also a seal hunter, places the average of 

 females taken at ninety per cent,^ and in this he 



» Vol. II, p. 512. 



^ Vol, II, p. 425. 



* Daniel McLean, Vol. II, p. 444. 



"Vol. II, p. 437. 



'' Cliarles Lutjeus, Vol. II, p. 458. 



