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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Statistics of regular killings for the quota, 1897. 

 ST. PAUL. 



RECAPITULATION. 



St. Paul Island 16,819 



St. George Island , '- 2.142 



Total.,. 3 18, 901 



1 The total number of, animals rejected during the season can not l>e taken as indicating the number of bachelors not 

 of killable age left, as many of these were driven several times and many of the younger seals doubtless do not come to the 

 islands at all during the killing season. The small seals will be taken into the quotas of 1898 and 1899; the large seals go to 

 swell the already overstocked 'reserve of breeding male life. Until this excess of male life is reduced to normal conditions 

 an effort should be made each year, as was done in 1897. to exhaust the supply of killable seals. 



z The weight here given 'is that of 100 skins weighed in lots of 10 each. 



s This includes all animals killed. The skins of 131 animals were rejected by the lessees. 



