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his ciitch were females. Early in the season "■ some of the females 

 would be in milk, but later on the milk would be dried up." 



John Figuera states that on the coast his catch was pretty well 

 divided as to males and females. He was in Behring Sea in 1887 and 

 1891, but never got any cows there. 



Captain G. E. Moclder thinks that as a rule more cows than bulls are 

 got. About two-thirds of the cows taken on the coast were pregnant. 



Lee J. Thiers states that in the first of the season he has taken along 

 the coast more females than males, but that later on along the South- 

 ern Alaskan coast he gets more bulls than cows. 



George Wells says that in 1890 more than half his coast catch were 

 bulls; about half the females were with pup. In Behring Sea in 1890 

 and 1891 about two-thirds the seals he got were females, a few in milk. 

 In 1891 his coast catch were about half females, of which about half 

 were with pup. In 1892 four-fifths of his coast catch were bulls, and 

 of the females not more than half were in pup. 



William O^Lear Shafter has found that both on the coast and in Beh- 

 ring Sea more females than males are taken. 



Gaptain Adolphe F. Carlson says that along the coast more females 

 are got than males, and that they are mostly carrying young. 



Fredericli Croclcer thinks that along this coast more females than 

 males are got. In Behring Sea about half and half. 



19 William Couriers thinks that more than half the seals taken 



along the coast are females. 



P. F. Peterson says that along the coast his experience is that about 

 half the seals taken are females and half males. 



H. J. Lund says that about 65 per cent, of his catch on the coast are 

 females. 



James Ford, two years' experience, states that on the coast he has 

 taken more males than females; fully half the cows taken were neither 

 carrying pups nor in milk. 



James W. Grew thinks he gets more females than males, and would 

 place the number of females at 60 to 70 per cent. Most of the cows he 

 has taken on the coast were carrying pup, but he has taken a great 

 many barren cows. In Behring Sea he thinks the greater part of the 

 cows got are in milk. 



Williain F. Roland says that about one-third of his catch on the 

 coast are females, but that in 1892 he got less females than in either of 

 the two previous years. His catch in 1892 was mostly young bulls. In 

 Behring Sea in 1890 and 1891 his catch was about half females, of which 

 ''more than half were in milk in varying quantities, from a good supply 

 to a few drops in cows about dried up." 



Arthur W. Roland says that both on the coast and in Behring Sea 

 in 1891 about half his catch was females, and about half the females 

 were in pup. After the 1st August in Behring Sea the cows were all 

 dried up. In 1892 his catch on the coast was about one-third females. 



John Mattheivs is of the opinion that on the coast about half his catch 

 were females. IsTot more than one in five seals taken were females with 

 pup. In Behring Sea at least five out of six seals taken were males, a 

 few cows in milk, some of them nearly all dried up. 



Andrew McKeil says that in 1891 about three out of five of the seals 

 taken on the coast were females, and that after the Ist August milch 

 cows began to disappear in Behring Sea. 

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