FUR SEAI^ AND OTHER LIFE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, 1914. 69 



Measurements of j-year-old males, with weights of skins, St. Paul Island, July 1, 1914. 



Tag No. 



5576 



5578 



5579 



5581 



55S2 



558s 



5587 



5588 



5589 



5590 



5592 



5593 



5594 



5595 



5596 



5597 



5598 



5599 



5600 



5601 



5602 



5603 



5604 



SlJos 



5606 



5607 



s6o8 



5(199 



5610 



5612 



5613 



5614 



5615 



5616 



5617 



Average 



Length of 

 body in 

 inches.^ 



Length of 



skull in 



millimeters. 



47 



46 



47K 



4SK 



48 



siX 

 47 

 46 

 46 



46J4 



46H 



50 



49 



46 



46 



48?< 



48K 



49K 



48K 



46 



48K 



51 



48M 



52>4 

 47K 



SoX 



48K 



46,U 



47 



48K 



47J^ 



47K 



47M 



49 



185 

 182 

 188 

 186 

 194 

 197 

 192 

 189 

 185 

 184 

 l8s 

 198 

 189 

 1S7 



197 

 188 

 J84 

 1 86 

 197 

 192 

 194 

 186 

 196 

 194 

 196 

 193 

 188 

 19s 

 190 

 183 

 187 

 182 



Weight of 

 skin. 



Lbs. Oz. 

 6 4M 



SH 

 6 



■'A 

 s'A 



2'A 



4 

 7 



n'A 



5'4 



WA 

 3 



6 ji>. 



4K 



2K 



4 



3 

 4 

 2K 



a These measurements were taken with a steel tape stretched over the back of the animal from the tip of nose to the root of 

 tail. Measurements taken with calipers give sUghtly smaller figures. 



THE 4- YEAR OLD BACHELORS. 



The 4-year-olds associate with the younger bachelors on the hauling grounds, and 

 though some of them may be distinguished by their dark breasts and occasionally by 

 an incipient "wig," as a class they differ from the 3-year-olds mainly in slightly increased 

 size. 



Only a few 4-year-olds were killed in 19 14, and most of these had their skulls so 

 badly shattered that they were not preserved. The data as to 4-year-olds, therefore, 

 are somewhat meager. In the case of five examples they are as follows: 



Measurements of ^-year-old males, with weights of skins, IQ14. 



Tag No. 



Length of 



animal in 



inches. 



Length of 



skull in 



millimeters. 



Weight of 

 skin. 



5802 

 5803 

 5804 

 5807 

 5808 



58 



S3A 



si'A 



56K 



52 



202 

 205 

 208 

 207 

 204 



Lbs. 0:. 



8 13K 



8 Va. 



9 5 



8 l,\i 

 . 8 8K 



