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W. G. Goudie. — ''The schools are made up of male and female seals, 

 young and old. But there are sometimes small bands of one sex." 



J. H. Raalce. — " Males and females usually travel together." He has 

 known cases where they travelled separately. 



George F. French. — "The bands were made up of both sexes of all 

 ages, except old bulls." 



Oscar Scarf hsis seen males travelling together, and females together; 

 but where the females are the males are not far off. 



F. W. Strong. — "These bands of seals contain both sexes and all 

 ages but old bulls." He has very seldom seen small bands of ten or 

 fifteen of one sex. 



Andrew Mathison. — "These schools were of all kinds of seals — both 

 sexes, young and old." 



William Shields, until 1892, found males and females, including grey 

 pups, travelling together, but in 1892 he found bulls in schools by 

 themselves. 



40 Fmil Eamlose. — "Males and females travel together." Has 



never seen many yearlings. 



Earnest Lorenz. — " Yearlings and 2-year-olds travel mostly by them- 

 selves; older males and females together." 



Isaac O'Quinn. — " The bunches were made up of all kinds of seals 

 from old bulls to 2-year-olds." Has never seen a large band of seals of 

 one kind. 



William Fewings. — " The large seals of both sexes generally travel 

 together." 



David Laing. — " Sometimes a band of bulls might be seen together, 

 but, as a rule, the males and females travel together, and with them are 

 mixed the yearlings," 



August Beppen. — "The males and females travel together." 



Thomas H, Broivn. — " Male and female seals travel together, and, as 

 a rule, the yearlings are with them." 



Victor Jacohson. — "The large males and females always travel 

 together." 



John Christian. — "Sometimes we get among young seals — mostly 

 males — for a day or two, then among cows and bulls mixed." 



William Heay. — " Some days I have got mostly cows, others young 

 bulls, but generally fiud them mixed up, all ages, of both sexes." 



R. S. Algar has noticed that when the seals were brought on board 

 the schooner both sexes were together. 



Hiram B. Jones. — " Some places we get nearly all males and some 

 places nearly all females, but generally the two sexes are mixed." 



Fdicard Cantillion thinks that males and females go in separate 

 bands sometimes, " but knows that when seals are plentiful the two 

 sexes ai'e mixed together." 



Andrew McGarva has noticed that females often travel in separate 

 bodies, but that they travel mixed together as well. 



Thomas Garner. — "Males and females travel together, and with them 

 the yearlings." 



Captain George Scott. — " On the Californian and Oregon coast the 

 schools are composed of old females and young seals of both sexes, and 

 about Cape Flattery they are j oined by the older males." 



