206 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ALASKA. 



Order CARNIVOEA. Flesh-Eaters. 



Family OTARIID^3E. Eared Seals. 



Genus Eumetopias. 



Eumetopias stelleri (Lesson) Peters. Northern Sea-Lion. 

 Too well known to need discussion in this connection. Its range extending to latitude sixty- 

 five degrees north ; here, however, merely stragglers occur, being, doubtless, the males worsted 

 on the hauliug-grounds farther south, and the barren females driven from those places. 



Genus Callorhinus. 



Callorhinus tjrsinus (Linn6) Gray. Fur Seal; Alaskan Fur Seal. 

 Bering Sea, from latitude sixty south into the Pacific Ocean. Migratory only into Bering Sea 

 This species has been so accurately described by Mr. H. W. Elliott* that further comment upon the 

 creature would be useless. In the spring of 1873 a scarred male Fur Seal was killed in Tebenkof 

 Cove, a couple of miles southwest of St. Michael's Redoubt. The individual was so exhausted, 

 from his wounds and journey, that he made no attempt to escape when approached. 



Family PHOCID^E. Hair Seals. 



Genus Phoca. 



Phoca vitulina Linn6. Harbor Seal. 

 The entire coast line and Aleutian Islands are frequented by this small species, which is highly 

 prized by all the inhabitants. 



Phoca grcenlandica Fabr. Harp Seal. 

 All the Arctic shore, Bering Sea, and among the Aleutian Islands. 



Phoca fcetida Fabr. Ringed Seal. 

 Has the same range as the preceding, but disposed to be more plentiful in the northern and 

 middle portions of its range. 



Phoca fasciata Zimmerman. Ribbon Seal. 

 This species is confined to the eastern portion of Bering Sea, having its center of abundance, 

 so far as is known, in the vicinity of Nunivak Island. 



Genus Erignathus. 



Erignathus barbatus (Fabr.) Gill. Square- flipper Seal ; Bearded Seal. 

 Most plentiful in the eastern and northern portions of Bering Sea. Among all the Aleutian 

 Islands is not so plentiful as is reported to have been in former years. 



Family URSIDJE. The Bears. 



Genus Ursus. 



Ursus americantjs Pallas. Black Bear. 

 The Black Bear ranges throughout the wooded portions of Alaska. It is very plentiful in 

 certain tracts along the Yukon valley, Kuskokvim River, Nushagak River, and thence southward 

 and interior. 



* A monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska. Sepecial Bulletin r76. Reprinted, with additions, from tlie 

 report on the Fishery Industries of the Tenth Census. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1882. 





