LIST OF PLATES AND MAPS. 



XXII.— Part of sealing fleet in Victoria harbor, October, 1894. 



Prom a photograph by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXIII. — Officers and Indian hunters of the Canadian schooner Favorite, 1894. 



From a photograph by Miller and Townsend. 

 XXIV. — Sealing canoes at Neah Bay, Northwest coast. 



From a photograph by Miller and Townsend. 

 XXV. — Sealing canoe. 



From a photograph by Miller and Townsend. 

 XXVI. — Outfit of sealing canoe, showing double-pointed spear pole, detachable spear points, 

 killing club, paddle, and bailer. 

 From a photograph by N. B. Miller. 

 XXVII. — Hoisting aboard canoes. 



Prom a photograph by A, B. Alexander. 

 XXVIII. — American schooner Columbia, with canoes in tow. Bering Sea, 1893. 

 From a photograph by N. B. Miller. 

 XXIX. — a Canoe leaving schooner. 

 6 Canoe returning, 

 e Canoe under sail. 



Prom photographs by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXX. — Part of the sealing fleet at Unalaska, July, 1896. 



From a photograpli by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXXI. — Landing at Village Cove, St. Paul, looking toward the entrance to the Salt Lagoon. 

 "Warehouse on the point; bidarkas or skin lighters in the foreground; the end of 

 Lagoon Rookery on the left. 

 From a photograph by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXXII. —The village of St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, looking toward Zoltoi Sands. 



From a photograph by C. II. Townsend. 

 XXXIII. — Deserted village at the southeast end of Guadalupe Island. In the background caves 

 formerly occupied by fur seals. 

 From a photograph by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXXIV. — The California sea elephant, Macrorhinus angustirostris, showing the usual position of 

 the proboscis and the manner of arching the body in progression. 

 Drawn by A. H. Baldwin from sketches and measurements by C. H. Townsend. 

 XXXV. — Rookery of the southern fur seal, Aretooephalus australis, on Lobos Island, mouth of 

 the La Plata River. , 

 From a photograph purchased in Montevideo. 

 XXXVI. — Branding seals on Lukanin Rookery. 



From a photograph by Dr. Otto Voss. 

 XXXVIa. — A branded seal skin. 



This skin was taken from a female seal killed in the harbor at Akun, Aleutian 

 Islands, in November, 1896, and turned over to the Commission by Mr. A. Gray, of 

 Unalaska. In the process of tanning a portion of the skin burned by the iron has 

 fallen oat, showing the effectiveness of branding as a means of depreciating the 

 value of pelagic skins. 

 XXXVII. — Herded seals in the Salt Lagoon. 



Drawn from nature by Bristow Adams. 

 XXXVIIL— Views on Walrus Island. 



From photographs by William Palmer. 

 XXXIX. — Eggs of the Pacific murre, ITria lomvia arra, showing variation in markings. 

 XL. — Stages in the development of feathers. 

 XLI. — Stages in the development of feathers. 

 XLII. — Argi/rosomus alaaoanvs, (type) Point Hope, Alaska. 



Drawn by Anna L. Brown. 

 XLIII. — Salmo mykiss, Kalakhtyrka River, Kamchatka. 



Drawn by Anna L. Brown. 

 XLIV. — SalveHnns malma, Unalaska. 



Drawn by Anna L. Brown. 



