Annual Quantities. 63 



The present yearly catch of Hair Seals is about 250,000. 

 Under the existing agreement between the maritime pow- 

 ers there will be no North West Coast Fur Seals for the 

 next five years, the killing of Alaska Seals on the Pribilof 

 Islands will be limited to about 3,000 a year and the 

 supply of Copper Island Skins will be less than 5,000 per 

 year. From the South Sea Islands about 5.000 skins are 

 received annually, and the same number of Cape Horn 

 Skins come into the market each year, together with 3,000 

 Cape of Good Hope Skins, and about 10,000 Lobos Island 

 Skins from the South Atlantic. 



About one million of the European Rabbit skins come 

 from Russia, a half a million come from Germany, twenty 

 million from Belgium and the balance from France. 



Holland supplies tAvo hundred thousand of the Euro- 

 pean Cat Skins, Germany one hundred thousand, Russia 

 three hundred thousand, and the rest come from different 

 parts of the Continent. 



Germany is credited with two hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand of the European Red Foxes, Russia with one hundred 

 and fifty thousand, and Norway with twenty-five thousand. 

 Of the Asiatic supply about sixty thousand come from 

 Siberia, and fifty thousand from China and Japan. 



^lost of the Tanucki or Raccoon-Dog- skins are shipped 

 from Japan; but China furnishes about one hundred and 

 fifty thousand of the skins, and Korea about thirtj^ thou 

 sand. 



]More than one-third of the European Pole Cats come 

 from Germany. The skins from the eastern provinces of 

 European Russia are so much like the Siberian variety 

 that thej' are included with the latter in the Asiatic 

 estimate. 



Of the Baum-martens, fifty thousand come from Ger- 

 many, fifty thousand from Russia and twenty thousand 

 from Norway and Sweden. 



Germany contributes one hundred thousand of the 

 Stone Martens, Bosnia and Turkey fifty thousand, and 

 Russia an equal quantity. 



Of the Asiatic Marmots China and ]\Ianchuria supply 

 five hundred thousand. The balance come from Siberia. 



