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Colin Locke, hunter, says: ^'Our coast catch was about equally 

 divided as to sex, and the catch on tlie other [Asiatic] side was also 

 about eciually divided. I killed more bulls than cows on the coast, and 

 I got a few more cows on the other side than 1 did bulls." 



HJmil Kamlo.se, seven years' experience, says that before 1892 he killed 

 more females than males, but in 1892 he took more males, in proportion, 

 than ever before. 



Captain Ernest Lorenz, three years' experience, was in Behring Sea 

 in 1890 and 1891. In one day in 1890 (11th August) his hunters got 

 130 seals, of which about 100 were males — small bulls. This was in 

 north latitude 55° G', and west longitude IGO"^ 1'. In 1891 he thinks he 

 took more females than males, but did not keep count. 



Captain Theodor Mafjnesen, four years' experience as inaster and navi- 

 gator, thinks that in liehring Sea more females than males are got, but 

 that on the llussian side the sexes were about equal in number. On 

 the coast took more males than females. "The last three years I had 

 over 1,000 skins for my coast catch each year, and two-thirds of them 

 were males. . . . Females are getting wilder and harder to get — 

 besides, they keep travelling." 



16 Captain Wentworth E. lialcer, five years master of sea ling- 



vessels, says: "Along the coast, in my catch this year and last 

 year, I got about 25 per cent, of cows. I used to get more than this, 

 but the cows are wilder now." 



Isaac O^Quinri, two years' experience, says that of 70 seals taken on 

 the coast in 1891 not more than 25 were females, and of 210 seals taken 

 in 18^2 not more than 40 were females. On (Jopper Islaml side, in 1891 

 and 1892, his catch and that of the other hunters with him was mostly 



bulls; not more than in 100 were females "Pregnant 



cows are g<inerally harder to get than (jther seals. They are more 

 restless, and don't sleep as well as the bulls." 



Captain Robert E. McKiel says he gets more females than males every 

 year, but that in 1892 there were more bulls in proportion to the females 

 than in other years. " We get more bulls with the cows the further 

 north we go. Last year and this year I found more males in proportion 

 to the females on the Kussiau side than I had found on the American 

 side of the Pacific." 



Captain Edward P. Miner thinks that about 40 per cent, of the seals 

 taken on the coast, and about GO per cent, of those taken in Behring 

 Sea, are females. 



Captain Charles Campbell, master of the sealing-schooner "Umbrina" 

 in 1891-92, states that the principal part of his catch was young males; 

 there were more of them than of females. 



Captain George Macdonald, six years' experience, five as sailing mas- 

 ter, says that as a rule more fenuiles than males are caught on the coast, 

 but that in Behring Sea about equal numbers of each sex are taken. 



William Feivin().s, six years' experience, thinks that about the same 

 numbers of males and females are taken. 



David Laiufi, of many years' experience, thinks that on the coast more 

 females than males are taken, but that in Behring Sea, both sides, 

 there are more males than females taken. 



Thomas H. Jiroivn, seal-hunting five years, has always taken along 

 the coast more males than females, and has found the sexes about equal 

 in Behriug Sea. " Females are much harder to get than males." 



