APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



915 



Nnniber of different Sizes sold annually in London, and showing Percentage of Skim 

 their Size, be Skins of Bearing Females — Continued. 



North-West Coast Seals. 



Small Sizes. 



p. 

 a 



a 



H 



a 



CO 



p< 



03 



si 



O 



CO OS 



as 



ccS 



o 

 H 



e3 q; 



O Si 



Is 



o ca 



a cS 



H 



Number of Skins of other 



Classes iucluded in 



Catalogue. 



a . 



o 

 H 



IS 



O 



O, 





■>m 



o 



is 



CO ■ 

 O 







^5 



O O DJ 



S * m 

 c g d 

 o 2 o 

 gcOO 



Tear. 



790 



2,913 

 18 

 28 



61 



456 



1,649 



221 



153 

 546 



13 

 74 



415 



18 



24 

 6 



50 

 1 



*1 



132 



117 



369 

 24 



97 



\ ^^ 

 38 



66 



18, 900 



7,45-1 



19, 973 



410 



522 



682 

 7,276 



16, 174 



t 1,788 



1, 731 C. H. 

 897 Jap. 



2, 193 0.fi. H. 



279 C. H. 

 1,007 Jap. 

 4,348 J, li). 



1, 826 C. I. 

 834 S. S. 



59:! C. H., &o. 



2, 470 L. I. 



82 Aust. 



10, 082 



19, 973 

 410 

 522 



3,104 



8,283 



26, 327 

 1,788 



54, 229 



34.85 



363, 131 



41.87 



1892 



* Black pupa. 



Remarks. — In the above Tables, C. I. denotes Copper Island; A., Alaska; N. "W. C.,''North-"We8t 

 Coast; Jap., Japanese; R. I., Robben Island; Cal., California; W. C, West Coast; L. I., Lobos 

 Island; S. S., South Sea; S. G., South Georgia; S. L., St. Louis; Pat., Patagonia; C. H., Cape Horn; 

 C. G. H.. Cape of Good Hope; Aust., Australian. 



" Wa.-ihed and dried" skins are those whicli have been put through a first process, and those placed 

 separately in the present Tables may mostly be looked upon as second-hand goods. 



"Ury" skins are those which have been dried in the air by the hunters, without any salt being used. 

 Large quantities of these skins were oifered for public sale before the year 1873. 



In the above statistics, occasionally a small parcel of salted or dry bkins has been omitted on 

 account of the sizes being too mixed, or the quantity too insigniticant, for classiflcation. 



Before the year 1887 it will be noticed that " Extra Extra Small Pups " were included in the " Extra 

 Small Pup " size in the North- West Coast description, and before 1889 in the Alaska description. 



Attention is also drawn to the fact that these Tables only include those skins offered for public sale 

 in London. There is no doubt that more or less important parcels of seals from San Francisco and 

 British Columbia liave been sold privately from time to time, the sizes of which are thus not to be 

 ascertained. 



In the North- West Coast catch have been included those skins of intermediate colouring approach- 

 ing the Japanese sort* The exact source of these can only be absolutely correctly vouched for by 

 captains of vessels engaged in seal-lishing. 



(Signed) 



P. R. Poland and Son. 



N. B. — The dividing line between "Larger Sizes" and " Smaller Sizes," in Table I, 

 has been drawn tbrougli the center of "what would be ordinarily classed as "Mid- 

 dling Sizes." 



The dividing line in Table II, between " Large Sizes" and "Small Sizes" has been 

 drawn so as to show what skius are too small to be those of bearing females. 



(See 10th Census of United States, Elliott, p. 46. Also Appendix, Table to letter 

 from Messrs. Lampson, vol. ii, p. 262.) 



