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Identifier: sealsalmonfisher03jord (find matches)
Title: Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Maynard, Washburn, 1844- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909 Morris, William Gouverneur, d. 1884 Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842 Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Brice, John J Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943 United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division
Subjects: Bering Sea controversy Sealing Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing Office
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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tes.^ •Many autllorities who are quoted in regard to the habits of the hair seals andsouthern sea lions speak with much fine detail of having witnessed the capture ofsea fowl by Phocidce and Otariidce. To this point of inquiry on the Pribilof IslandsI gave continued close attention, because off and around all of the rookeries largeflocks of auks, arries, gulls, shags, and choochkies were swimming upon the waterand shifting thereupon incessantly day and niglit throughout the late spring, sum-mer, and early fall. During the four seasons of my observation I never saw theslightest motion made by a fur seal or sea lion, a hair seal, or a walrus towardintentionally disturbing a single bird, much less of capturing and eating it. Hadthese seals any appetite for sea fowl this craving could have been abundantly satis-fied at the exi^ense of absolutely no effort on their i^art. That none of these animalshave any taste for water birds I am thoroughly assured. Plate XX. Monograph—SEAL-ISLANDS.
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SPEARING THE SEA-LION COWS. Natives brinq the Sea-Uon drove from Northeast Point. Shooting the old males. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 153 LIFE HISTORY OF THE WALRUS. Voluminous writings relative to the walrus.—When I firstset out for the sea islands, from the Smithsonian Institution, in 1872,I fancied tliat, as far as the walrus was concerned, I should havenothing to learn, because of the literature on that subject which Ihad read from the Congressional Library, viz: The curious histories written by Olaus Magnus, in 1555; by Gesner,in 1558; by Martens, in 1G75; by Pennant, in 1781-1792; by Buffon, in1785, and by Cuvier, in 181G, together with an almost innumerable listof authors who have since contributed papers on the walrus and itscharacter to nearly all the learned associations of the Avorld. Withthis imposing list of authorities in my mind, I thought I had reasonto believe that there was nothing about this pinniped which I shouldfind new, or even interesting to science. The walrus of Ber

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