SECOND. 



MATTERS UPON WHICH THE REPORT RELIES TO 

 ESTABLISH CONCLUSIONS ADVANCED THEREIN 

 AND TO FORMULATE THE REGULATIONS RECOM- 

 MENDED, WHICH MATTERS HAVE NOT BEEN 

 DEALT WITH IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED 

 STATES. 



HABITS OF THE FUR-SEALS. 



1. That the Alaskan seal herd has a defined winter 

 habitat. 



The Commissioners have advanced a most ex- 

 traordinary theory as to the life history of the 

 Alaskan seal herd. It is presented in the follow- 

 The "winter ino; words: "The fur-seal of the North Pacific mav 



habitat" theory. ° _ J 



thus be said, in each case [referring also to the 

 Commander herd], to have two habitats or homes 

 between which it migrates, both equally necessary 

 to its existence under present circumstances, the 

 one frequented in summer, the other during the 

 winter" (Sec. 28). Again, the Report states that 

 the portion of sea lying off the West Coast, be- 

 tween the 56th and 46th parallels of north lati- 

 tude, which limits include the whole length of 

 the British Columbian coast, "is the winter habi- 

 tat of the fur-seal of the eastern side of the North 

 Pacific" (Sec. 192, p. 31), and that Bering Sea 

 may be named "their summer habitaV (Sec. 192, 

 p. 31). 



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