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George McDonald once saw two seals shot while they were pairing in 

 the water, and describes the manner in which copulation is effected. 



August Reppen describes manner in which seals copulate in the water. 



Thomas H. Brown has seen seals pairing in the water, and has 

 watched them for as long as five minutes at such times. 



Walter Heay has watched seals for upwards of five minutes while 

 they were pairing in the water, and describes manner in which copula- 

 tion is effected. 



Hiram B. Jones has shot both seals while they were pairing in the 

 water in Behring Sea. 



Edward Cantillion has seen seals pairing in the water. 



A. C. Folger has seen seals attempting to pair in the water hundreds 

 of times, and says that the males are a class larger than those that are 

 Killed on the Seal Islands. 



Andrew McGarva has shot both male and female seals as they were 

 attempting to pair in the water. 



Bohert F. Finley has seen seals pairing in the water, and shot both 

 male and female at such times. 



Thomas Garner on two occasions in Behring Sea shot both male and 

 female while they were pairing in the water, and describes at length the 

 manner in which copulation was effected. 



Joh7i Kraft has seen seals pairing in the water. 



Franlc G. Warrington describes manner in which copulation is effected 

 by seals in the water. 



G. F. Miner has seen seals attempting to pair in the water. 



Captain G. Scott has seen seals pairing in the water, and at such 

 times has been able to kill both by killing the cow first. 



George Wester has seen seals pairing in the water, and at those times 

 has been able to kill both the male and the female. 



William Gonners has seen seals pairing in the water, and by killing 

 the female first has been able to get both. 



William Petit, has seen seals pairing in Behring Sea, and describes 

 manner in which copulation is effected. 



G. F. Billon has seen seals pairing in the water iu Behring Sea. 



XI. — Evidence respecting the Resort of Fur-seals to neio Breeding-places 



from time to time. 



Captain F. P. Miner. — "The next year, 1882, 1 sailed from Yokohama 

 in the schooner ' Otome' otter-hunting to the Kurile Islands. The year 

 before that Captain Snow had found a new rookery on Shed-noi Island, 

 and in 1882 we went there and camped ashore ; there were eight schoon- 

 ers of us. I do not remember exactly how many seals we got then, but 

 know that there were 1,000 in the first drive. A rookery had been found 

 on Moo-shir Eocks the year before, and we worked both rookeries that 

 summer. ... In 1883 I went in the schooner 'Otsego,' of 

 35 Yokohama, sea-otter and seal hunting, but we wanted particu- 

 larly to find a rookery in the Japan Sea. I was mate and navi- 

 gator. We were looking for the Waywoda Eocks, on which seals had 

 been reported to haul out, but these rocks, I believe, do not exist. We 

 found seals, however, on the Bittern Eocks, 14 miles oft' north-west coast 



