104 HABITS OF THE FUR-SEALS. 



Seals followed this connection that both Capt. Kelley and Capt. 



along Vancouver 



island. Petit, above mentioned, state that they have 



followed the seals "along" the coast of British 

 Columbia, which is evidence of the fact that the 

 seal herd was moving northward when hunted off 

 Vancouver Island. 

 Seals scattered The distribution of the Alaskan seal herd is 



during winter 



months. much more scattered during the winter months 



than is implied by the Report, and the range of 

 portions of the herd is much farther south and 

 west than appears on the Commissioners' chart 

 of migration. Capt. Hooper, R. M., who ex- 

 tended his observations of 1892 in Bering Sea 

 into September and continued his investigation 

 of seal life and the migration of the herd until 

 some time in November, states: "Those that 

 leave [the Pribilof Islands] earliest go farthest 

 south, arriving on the coast of California, and 

 those leaving later reach the coast further up. 

 * * * They appear at about the same time 

 off a long line of coast, reaching from California 

 to Washington. When they are so found they 

 are known always to be moving northward up 

 the coast." 1 This is also more fully treated in 

 his report of November 21, 1892. 2 



Capt. Walter H. Ferguson, who has followed 



1 C. L. Hooper, post p. 370. 



s Eeport of Capt. Hooper, November 21, 1892, post p. 228. 



