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COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 

 Index to British Counter-Case — Continued. 



Excessive killing — 



Under Russian control 



{See also Killing.) 

 Excrement — 



Absence of, on breeding-grounds. 



F. 



Falconer, Mr. — 



On length of sojourn in islands 



Falkland Islands — 



Seal fisherjT laws 



Females — 



Date of goin ? to sea for food 



Included in drives 



Large number unserved 



Proportion in pelagic catch 



Females in milk — 



United States statements as to killing at sea 



Taken after weaning of young 



Taken where no connection with islands possible 



Females killed at sea — 



Allegations in United States Case inconclusive 



Exaggeration of numbers by United States 



Kecent excess due to killing on islands 



Pelagic sealers anxious to keep down numbers 



Views of British Commissioners 



Female skins — 



First noticed In Pribyloff catch 1878 



Ferce natures — 



Instances of animals 



Seals classed as 



Fish- 

 Abundance near rookeries 



Amount consumed by seals 



Asserted by United States to be scarce near rookeries 



Influence on seal migration 



Fisheries — 



Damage to, by seals - 



Term a])plied to seal industry 



Fish -like habits of fur-seal 



Flower, Sir W. A.— 



On habits of Pinnipedia 



Food- 

 Abstinence from, during breeding season * 



Entirely derived from sea 



Seals do not go far to sea for 



Foreigners — 



N umbers in Behring Sea previous to 1824 



Foreign Powers — 



Adhesion of, to Kegulations 



Foreign trade — 



Affected by Charter of 1821 



Allowed from latitude 55° to the northward 



Foreign vessels — 



No evidence of expulsion by Russia 



Not excluded under Ukase of 1799 



Fowler, Mr. (agent of Lessee Company) — 



On length of sojourn in islands 



Fowler, Mr. (Member of Congress) — 



Opposition to lease of Alaska Company 



Fox Islands 



France — 



Fishery legislation of 



Fratis, Mr. — 



On length of sojourn in islands 



Furriers — 



Evidence in United States Case contradictory 



" as to increased number of female skins in Pribyloft' catch 



" 8howin<'- differences between skins on two sides of North Pacific slight 



In Great Britain 3o not want pelagic sealing stopped 



Fur-seals. {See also Seals) — 



Alleged to be domestic animals. United States contentions 



" " " Summary of British reply 



Alleged object of Russian jurisdiction 



Afraid of man 



Analogy of other animals 



Breeding on North-west coast 



Control, not domestication 



Controllable on land because defenceless 



Do not feed <m breeding-islands 



FertB natural 



Have fins, not feet • 



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