560 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CaSE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Joseph Brown says that not more than one-half the seals he got on 

 the coast in 1892 were females. During the three seasons he sealed in 

 Behriiig Sea his catch was composed of about half males and half 

 females. " Early in the season, about the 1st to loth July, we got a few- 

 cows in pup, and after that some in milk, but as the season grew later 

 very few of these were got." Barren cows were got every year. 

 18 James Siteman says that in 1888 and 1889 on the coast about 



half the seals his vessel took were females, mostly in pup; m 

 1890 the catch of the vessel he was on was nearly all males, the females 

 beiug mostly young and barren cows. In 1892 the catch of his vessel 

 was about three- fifths males, and nearly all the rest were barren cows. 

 . . . In Behring Sea each season about half the catch were females; 

 probably two-thirds of these breeding cows showing milk, sometimes 

 only a trace nearly dried up, others with a good supply. 



William Hermann says that, as a rule, there are more females than 

 males in his catches. 



Captain George Scott states that the catches of the vessels he has 

 been on had, between San Francisco and Behring Sea, been about half 

 males and half females; about two thirds the cows pregnant. In Beh- 

 riug Sea his catches have been about half males and half females. In 

 Behring Sea the cows taken are for the most part in milk, but he has 

 killed many in which the milk was just about dried. 



George Wester states that about 60 per cent, of his catches along 

 the coast would be females, and in Behring Sea about half. From 20 

 to 25 per cent, of the females taken were barren. 



Captain Charles Lutjens states that about four-fifths of his catches, 

 both on the coast and in Behring Sea, have been females. 



Charles ITar^hoeii thinks that about 00 per cent, of his catch, both on 

 the coast and in Behring Sea, are females. About two-thirds the cows 

 on the coast are carrying young, and about the same proportion in 

 Belning Sea are in milk, he thinks. Has killed cows in Behring Sea 

 early in July, and found the milk dry and yellow. 



Milton Scott for the last two years has taken more males than females 

 along the coast, and in Behring Sea about half and half as regards 

 sexes; of 300 cows taken along the coast in 1892, not more than 100 

 were pregnant. 



Captain J. E. Worth says: " Along the coast, in 1890, 70 per cent, 

 were females, and the next year about the same. This year, however, 

 they were divided about half and half. In Behring Sea the majority 



taken were bulls When going north to the islands there 



seems to be more males among the seals the further north we go." 



Charles Francis says that his catches, both on the coast and in Beh 

 ring Sea, contain about half females. 



Captain Michael Keefe says that of 190 seals taken on the coast in 

 1892 nearly all were young bulls; " very few cows, and none with pup." 

 In 1889 and 1890 by far the larger percentage of the catch were males. 

 He never has got more females than males. On the coast about 20 in 

 100 females are in pup. He was in Behring Sea in 1890, and two-fifths 

 of his catch were females; none in pup; none with a supply of milk, 

 but a good many showing milk dried up. In 1891 nearly half his catch 

 in Behring Sea were cows, most of them showing dried milk in their 

 breasts. 



John Cohurn says that this year [1892] his catch was nearly all bulls. 

 " None of the females I got were with pup." In previous years less 

 than half his catch were females. In Behring Sea the bigger half of 



