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Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? A. 

 About 90 per cent, for the simple reason that the bulls are not migra- 

 tory. (George Ball.) 



Most all the seals taken by me have been cows. I think cows sleep 

 more and are more easily approached. Never killed but seven old bulls 

 on the coast of Washington in my life, but have taken a few pups every 

 year. (Wilton C. Bennett.) 



Think the majority of the seals taken are cows. Never killed but 

 two old bulls in my life. Have killed quite a number of yearling seals 

 and some young males 2 or 3 years old. (Edward Benson.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea? A. Mostly females. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? A. 

 About 80 per cent. (Daniel Claussen.) 



From my experience, observation, and conversation with seal hunters 

 I am of the opinion that fully 75 per cent of their catch are females. 

 (Leander Cox.) 



I saw one schooner's catch examined at Unalaska in 1889, and there 

 were found a large percentage of female seals among them. (M. C. 

 Erskine.) 



Of those taken probably four out of five are females. (F. F. Feeny.) 



The seals taken by them (the G. H. White and the Kate Manning) 

 were nearly all females. (George Fogel.) 



Have never killed an old bull in my life, nor have seen one the last 

 few years. (Luke Frank.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea? A. The majority of them are females. 

 Last year I killed 72, and out of the 72 there was only 3 males. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? A. 

 About 90 to 95 per cent. (Luther T. Franklin.) 



Off Cape Flattery there is hardly a dozen large males taken out of 

 every thousand large seals whose skins are called first class j all the 

 males taken here are small ones. (Thomas Frazer.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea? A. About 90 per cent of them were 

 females. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? A. 

 About 90 per cent. (Edward W. Funcke.) 



We caught about 160 seals before entering the sea. Over 100 of them 

 were cows. (John Fyfe.) 



Caught 1,500 seals on that voyage. We caught some a little ways 

 from Victoria, and on the way up to Bering Sea, but the most of them, 

 about 1,200, we caught in Bering Sea. I was told by the men that they 

 were nearly all females, and I thought so, too, from the milk that I saw 

 in their breasts when they were on the deck. I saw over a hundred 

 little pups taken from the seals, which they threw overboard. (George 

 Grady.) 



To the best of my knowledge and belief about seven of every ten 

 seals killed in pelagic sealing are females. (W. P. Griffith.) 



