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Again, in considering this question, after mak- intermingling of 



, • n * ne Alaskan and 



mg practically the same statement, that the mi- Russian herds. 

 gration routes are distinct, the Commissioners 

 add " * * * it is believed that, while to a 

 certain extent transfers of individual seals or of 

 small groups occur probably every year between 

 the Pribiloff and Commander tribes, that is 

 exceptional rather than normal" (Sec. 453). In 

 spite, however, of these admissions that all inter- 

 mingling of the two herds is abnormal and infre- 

 quent, they still assert that such interchange takes 

 place (Sec. 170). In support of such an assertion 

 two charts are presented in the Report (Nos. Ill charts Nos. hi 



1 1 v _ and IV of the Re- 



and IV, facing p. 150) purporting to give theP° rt * 

 distribution of seals hi Bering Sea during two 

 periods, namely, July 15 to August 15 and Au- 

 gust 15 to September 15 (Sec. 213). The chart chart No. n of 



the Report. 



also, which purports to show the resorts and 

 migration routes of fur-seals in the North Pacific 

 (No. II, facing p. 150), assumes a similar distri- 

 bution. 



The data, from which these charts as to the Data from which 



the charts were 



distribution of seals in Bering Sea were con- com i jiled - 

 structed, are stated in the Report to be the seal- 

 ing logs kept by the American and British 

 cruisers in Bering Sea during the season of 1891 

 and "information on the same subject * * * 



sought in various other ways, such as by inquiry 

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