APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. Che 
I now submit, most respectfully, my detailed Report covering the above-men- 
tioned heads, together with those field-sketches and maps which | deem necessary 
to give a more distinct, clear, and full idea of my meaning and understanding of 
the subjects treated. 
Trusting that it will meet with your approval, I am, &e. 
Henry W. ELmiorr. 
To the above may be added, furnished by Professor Elliott, the following Table 
showing numbers of fur-seals on the breeding grounds of the Pribyloff Islands, 
Alaska, during 1872-74, and again in 1890: 
Seals, Seals, 
Male, Female,| Male, I’emale, 
HGH Rookerics. and Young, | and Young, 
1872-74. 1890. 
IRC6E nope aenlececewciete scene 301, 000 140, 500 
Garbotchtieaceceee sees ee 183, 000 84, 000 
Waroonia ese ns ecsesses se cee 37, 000 9, 000 
PROISTOI See nce cnet eens ~ 225, 000 62, 400 
LAN AONIO eR esc wc see scoe 441, 000 121, 205 
GCA VIL = sce seca setaseaes 165, 000 28, 000 
TUM ANTION eo cece cee eee 170, 000 72, 500 
IPolavinaGecweccsiensacnen: 300, 000 142, 000 
North-East Point .........-- 1, 200, 000 217, 875 
Nahspeelieas-cecsstisceee cas 8,000 | Disappeared. 
ZAMAUNIC) somes ce onic ces 18, 000 12, 500 
Stamny Amteeles 22s 30, 420 16, 000 
INOrthoe: a2. oeoen. 77, 000 38, 500 
Little Eastern 13, 000 4, 800 
Great Easterm:22--2----2-5.- 25, 000 9, 000 
Grand} total. =-- --.--- 3, 198, 420 959, 393 
61 The grand total of 5,193,420 breeding seals and their young for 1872-74 rep- 
resents a division of its sexes and ages of about 1,600,000 breeding females or 
“cows,” 1,450,000 newly-born seals or ‘“‘pups,” and some 145,000 to 160,000 able- 
bodied virile males or “bulls” over 6 years of age (the proportion of farrow or 
“barren” cows too small for notice then). 
The grand total of 959,393 breeding seals, male and female, for 1890 is divided into 
diiferent proportions as to sex and age, owing to deadly causes at work on land and 
sea since 1874. The proportion of the above total for 1890 is 350,000 bearing females, 
and some 250,000 not bearing, or not served last year and this; 350,000 pups, and 
between 8,000 and 9,000 old males, many of them absolutely impotent at the begin- 
ning of the season of 1890, most of them becoming wholly so as the season advanced, 
In 1872-74 Elliott and Maynard estimated the number of surplus young males or 
“killable” seals at 1,500,000; this year of 1890 Elliot makes a rigid calculation 
which shows a scant 100,000 males left above 1 year old. 
