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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PR1BILOF ISLANDS. 



ST. PAUL, 



. \ > l. |sMi. 



ST. 4,i:OI{4.l 1*1. I M. 1896. 



ST. PAUL, I l. A > l. 189T. 



1 In this year more normal driving was permitted, but the increased quota is not wholly due to this fact. In the 

 season of 1896 the hauling grounds felt the beneficial effects of the modus vivendiot 1893. No pups starved to death in 

 that season and the result was a larger proportion of survivors. A part, also, of the seals which the limited operations 

 of 1395 failed to secure were doubtless taken into the quota of 1896. 



3 The quota of 1897 was left indefinite under the direction of the commission, and the driving was planned with a view 

 to making the quota represent the full product of the hauling ground*. For the same reason the killing was continued 

 into August. 



3 This total, as well as that for St. Oeorge Island following, does not include such seals as may have been killed for 

 food in the fall of the year 1897. 



