FIRST. 



MATTERS IN RELATION TO WHICH THE REPORT 

 AND THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES MATE- 

 RIALLY CONFLICT, AND CONCERNING WHICH 

 PROPOSITIONS OR FACTS ARE ALLEGED IN THE 

 REPORT WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN CONSIDERED IN 

 THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



HABITS OF THE FUR-SEALS. 



1. Distribution of seals in Bering Sea and the sug- 

 gested intermingling of the Pribilof and Comman- 

 der seal herds. 



intermingling of The British Commissioners, in considering* the 



the Alaskan and ° 



Russian herds, intermingling; of the two herds, after stating the 

 fact that the Pribilof herd enters and leaves Ber- 

 ing Sea by the eastern passes of the Aleutian 

 Islands and referring to certain statements made 

 in the Report as to migration, continue: "These 

 circumstances, with others which it is not neces- 

 sary to detail here, are sufficient to demonstrate 

 that the main migration routes of the seals fre- 

 quenting the Commander Islands do not touch 

 the Aleutian chain, and there is every reason to 

 believe that, although the seals become more or 

 less commingled in Bering Sea during the sum- 

 mer, the migration routes of the two sides of the 

 North Pacific are essentially distinct." (Sec. 

 198.) 



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