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John Matthews. — '•! did not notice any difference between tlie seals 

 on the two sides of tlie North Pacific, except that the seals on the 

 Asiatic side seemed not so wild as on this coast. I think there were a 

 larger number of darker-coloured seals on that side, but the difference 

 is slight, and I have seen seals of the same shade of colour on this 

 side." 



Frank Moreau. — "I think there is a difference in the quality of the 

 skins on the Russian and American coasts, because I have noticed 

 more shaggy and rough skins on the Russian than on the American." 



Peter Eammel. — " I could not see the difference between the skins 

 taken on the Jai^anese coast and those taken on the American coast." 



XIII. — Evidence of Sealers respecting the possibility of distinguishing 

 the Sex of Seals by Appearance of SMns. 



Laughlin McLean. — " I cannot tell a skin of a female from that of a 

 male by the teats, for both have teats, and salted skins could not be 

 separated in that way. There is no way to tell the sex of the seal a 

 salted skin is taken from. I don't believe any man can tell the 

 difference." 



Captain E. Lorenz. — "Male and female skins of the same size cannot 

 be distinguished one from the other." 



Captain Wenttvorth E. BaTcer. — "It is not possible to tell a male from 

 a female seal by the skin." 



David Laing, engaged in the sealing business since 1867, says: "I 

 have handled many thousands, and could not tell the sex of the seal 

 from which they were taken by the skins." 



James W. Todd. — "In 1887, after seizure, my vessel was taken to 

 Unalaska. I had on deck a number of male seals un skinned. At 

 Unalaska they were taken ashore, and the expert there, employed by 

 the Alaska Commercial Company, iDronounced them females. It was not 

 till the sexual organs were examined that this expert would admit that 

 the seals were males. 



Captain Eiram B. Jones. — " From the skin alone the sex of the ani- 

 mals could not be determined except in the case of large bull seals. 



A. J. Bertram, six years' experience: "I do not think the sexes could 

 be distinguished by the skins." 



Robert John Eorton, thirty-two years in the employ of Hudson's Bay 

 Company at Victoria, says that every year he has handled fur-seal skins 

 brought in by Indians and schooners, and that he cannot tell the skin 

 of a male from that of a female. He thinks it almost impossible for any 

 one to do so, especially when the skins are about the same average size. 

 Old bulls and grey pups can be distinguished from the others, but the 

 sex of a grey pup cannot be told from the skin. . . . The sex of 

 the seal cannot be told by the colour or length of its whiskers." 



George Scott. — "I think it is impossible to tell a male's skin from a 

 female's when it has been removed from the carcase." 



Charles E. Ladd. — "I have been constantly dealing in fur-seal skins 

 since the year 1885, and consider it is most difficult, if not impossible, to 

 determine the sex of the animal from which undressed skins in the raw 

 state have been taken." 



