58 HABITS OF THE FUR-SEALS. 



Position taken that the breeding cows are in the habit of leav- 



by the Report and 



the authorities. i U g the rookeries to fish for the support of their 

 young, but the experienced authority on whose 

 remarks these notes are founded is not of this 

 opinion. He has never found food inside the 

 female fur-seal taken on the breeding grounds." 

 (Sec. 307) — must be rejected for the reason that 

 the statement is based on no actual knowledge. 

 Capt. Bryant's The reference, given in connection with Capt. 



statements. 7 * *■ 



Bryant's opinion, is to his report, made when he 

 was special Treasury agent in November, 1869, 

 and which is published in the Appendix herewith 

 submitted, so far as the same relates to the Pribilof 

 Islands. 1 The statement referred to in the Report 

 is as follows: "The females go into the water to 

 feed when the pups are some six weeks old, leaving 

 them on the uplands." 2 In another portion of his 

 report Capt. Bryant says : "About the middle 

 of June the males have all arrived and the ground 

 is fully occupied by them. Soon after this the 

 females begin to come, in small numbers at first, 

 increasing as the season grows late, until the 

 middle of July." 3 At another place he states : 

 "About the middle of July the females go from 

 the rookeries into the water." 2 It is, therefore, 



1 Post p. 275. 

 *Posty. 278. 

 3 Post p. 276. 



