440 INDEX OF COUNTER CASE. 



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 Number of seals killed on the Pribilof Islands. (See Quota.) 



" to be taken, restriction as to, proposed in Report 125 



Nursing cows. (See Cows.) 



Nursing of pups : 



Analogy witb other animals opposed to promiscuous, admitted 54 



Authorities relied upon in Report to prove promiscuous 54 



Bryant on the 53 



Elliott on the 53 



Promiscuous, alleged in Report 53 



" denied 53 



" not proven 56 



" SirF.McCoyon 55 



" stated by C. H. Jackson 55 



Open-sea sealing. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Open season. (See Close season.) 



Origin of jurisdictional controversy - 8 



Overdriving subsequent to 1880 irrelevant 79 



Owuership of seized vessels. (See Vessels seized.) 



Packing count. (See Counting of skins.) 



Pacific. (See North Pacific.) 



Partiality of British Commissioners. (See British Commissioners.) 



Pathfinder, American ownership of 130 



Pearl. (See Case of the.) 



Pelagic catch. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



" coition. (*See Aquatic coition.) 



" hunters. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



" nature. (See Change of Habits.) 



" seal herds 109 



Pelagic sealing 80 



Admitted to tend towards decrease 66 



Alleged number of seals lost by Indians 95 



" " by white hunters 95 



Apology for, in the Report 80 



" in the Report based on alleged faults in management 126 



" in Report insufficient 99 



Begins below alleged winter habitat 103 



Catch in Bering Sea three times as much as in North Pacific 94 



" supposed to equal 10,000 seals a week 128 



Catch of, proposed to be four times quota 128 



Catches in Bering Sea and North Pacific compared 93 



Close time for. (See Close time.) 



Effects of, on birth rate 66 



General use of shotgun in 123 



Improvements in, suggested. (See Improvements in methods.) 



In Asiatic water coincident with increase of dead pups on Russian islands. 93 



In Bering Sea compared with that in North Pacific 84 



Inconsistencies of statements by Indians and whites 96 



Interested witnesses are those engaged in 81 



Percentage of cows admitted to be taken 81 



" in catches of vessels seized by Russia in 1892 83 



" in catch 80 



" taken by, prior to 1870 84 



" taken in, according to Indians 80 



" " BeringSeaby 83,85 



" " Statements about, inconsistent with Report. 81 



