584 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Robert S. Findley. — " I think the seals on the Russian side are exactly 

 the same kind of animal as on this side." 



G. E. Miner. — '' I have sealed three seasons on the Copper Island 

 side of Behring Sea. I have tried to tell the difference between the 

 seal on the American side and on the Eussian side, but putting the 

 skins side by side I cannot see any difference." 



Laughlin McLean. — " I can see no difference between the seals on 

 this side and on the Eussian side." 



J. D. Warren.— ^^ This year I handled a lot of skins taken on the 

 Copper Island grounds. I did not notice any difference between them 

 and skins taken on the coast on this side of Behring Sea. The two 

 lots appear to me exactly alike." 



Joseph Brown. — "The seals on the Copper Island side are darker in 

 colour than on this side, but I do not think there ia any other differ- 

 ence." 



J. Siteman was mate of the "Geneva" in 1892, when 600 skins were 

 taken on the Asiatic coast; he had charge of all the skins, and did not 

 notice any difference between the seals taken on that coast and on the 

 American coast. 



George Scott. — "I have not noticed any difference in the quality of 

 the skins caught on the Asiatic and American sides." 



Charles Hartiwen. — "In my opinion the Asiatic seal, the Japanese, 

 and the American are the same, and I don't think an expert, after they 

 have been salted, can tell them apart. I have had a large experience 

 in all three kinds of skins, and am therefore competent to speak." 



Milton Scott. — "I have never noticed any difference in the quality 

 between the Eussian and the American skin, but I think the former a 

 little darker." 



Charles Francis. — "The seals on the Asiatic side are more copper- 

 coloured on the breast and bellies than on this side, but there is no 

 other difference that I ever noticed. I have SQen exactly the same 

 thing in seals on this coast, but not so many of them." 



Michael Eeefe. — "There is no difference in the seals on the two 

 coasts. There may be a difference of quality in the fur, but in the seal 

 itself there is none." 



George Wells. — "I noticed no difference between the seals on the two 

 sides of the Pacific. I often get seals on the American coast differing 

 slightly in colour from the general run, and the same is true on the 

 Asiatic side." 



W. 0. Shafter. — "Skins on this coast look to me to be better than 

 those on the Asiatic, as the hair looks to be longer." 



Lee J. Thiers. — "I have never noticed any difference in the quality 

 of the skins taken along this coast from those in Behring Sea, and I 

 would not know the difference between those taken on the American 

 coast and those of the Japan side." 



W.F. Upson. — "In my experience there is no difference in the fur 

 of any of the seals, American or Eussian, but I have killed seals off 

 Guadaloupe Island, and found the fur lighter in colour and quality, and 

 not as valuable as the others." 



38 A. W. Roland. — "The fur of the seals generally on the Asiatic 



coast is a shade darker than on this side, but I have seen seals 

 on this coast as dark in colour as any I saw over there. Except in this 

 respect there is no difference between them." 



