SEAL LIFE ON THE PKIBILOF ISLANDS. 



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occasioual young seals brought into the villages on the PiibiU)f Islands 

 to be raised as pets, but in no case have they fed, except when milk 

 was forced into tliem, and even then they did not live more than three 

 weeks. Young seals continue to live entirely upon tlieir mother's milk 

 until late in the fall. During my e.xamination of the rookeries, from 

 September 9 to 13, I found the females suckling their young as com- 

 monly as they are observed doing a month earlier in the season. One 

 handsome albino puj), as large as any of the others, I secured as a nat- 

 ural history specimen, it was cotl'ce-colored, witli white Hippcrs. It 

 was left ui)on a high rock, and lin<ling, upon my return in the even- 

 ing, that two quarts of thick milk had run from its month, 1 photo* 

 graphed it. It weighed, after losing its milk, l-Sjf pounds. 



I dissected seveial dead i)ups, finding in all cases an almost complete 

 disappearance of fat fiom under the skin and an entire absence of food 

 of any kind in the stomach. Accompanying photographs of dead pupS 

 illustrate, in a measure, the condition in which they were found, but 

 most of the photographs are unsatisfactory. 



Lht of the (halts nhoicinf/ the outlines of the iooherien on (lit J'rihilof Iiilunda, July, LS94.^ 



ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Northeast Point rookery Inly 13, Chart A 



Polavina rookery .) uly 1(S, Chart B 



Ketavie and LukannoTi rookeries July 15, Chart G 



Keef and Garbotch rookeries July 15, Chart D 



Tolstoi and Liigoon rookeries : July 17, Chart E 



Zapadnie and English Buy rookeries Inly 14, Charts F and G- 



ST. GKOKGK ISLAND. 



Starry Artecl rookery July 27. Chart II 



North rookery Inly 21, Chart I 



East and Little East rookeries Inly 20, Chart J 



Zapadnie rookery July 27, Chart K 



JAst of the photographs of the neal rookeries on the Pribilof Islands, taken in Jiili), 1S94, by 

 X. II. Miller and V. H. Toicnsend, showini/ the dates on irhich then were made, a 



ST. PAUL ISLAXU. 



a Thi.s set of photographs not transmitted for publication, the accompanying series for 1893, sliow" 

 ing more reduced condition of rookeries, being deemed sufficient. 



' This set of maps not transmitted for pnblication, the aceompanying set for 1895, 

 showing more reduced area of rookeries, being deemed sufficient. 



