. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ^ bowed theirheads and scuttled across, wholly beneath the notice of the huge seevitchie. Why the sea lion should be relatively so scant in numbers over the great extentof the large geographical area wherein it is found is perplexing to me, for it isphysically as active and much more powerful than the fur seal. Perhaps thisincreased bulk of body deters it from feeding as successfully as its more lithesomecousin does. I should estimate that the full-grown sea-lion bull, after it leaves theislands at the end of the breeding season unti
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ^ bowed theirheads and scuttled across, wholly beneath the notice of the huge seevitchie. Why the sea lion should be relatively so scant in numbers over the great extentof the large geographical area wherein it is found is perplexing to me, for it isphysically as active and much more powerful than the fur seal. Perhaps thisincreased bulk of body deters it from feeding as successfully as its more lithesomecousin does. I should estimate that the full-grown sea-lion bull, after it leaves theislands at the end of the breeding season until it reappears for the next, would requireat least 101) pounds of fish jier diem, while the females and younger males wouldcrave and consume from 40 to 60 pounds of such food every twenty-four hours. Plate XVII. Monograph— Yearling. THE BLACK SEA-LION. (Zalophus Gillespii.) The authors life-studies of a four-year-old male, an adult female, and a yearling, at San Francisco, Cal. (Woodwards Gardens). ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 143 turb aud drive off any portion of the rookery, by walkinjj^ up in plainsight, those nearest to you will take to the water, instantly swim outto a distance of 50 yards or so, leaving their jiups behind, lielplesslysprawled around and about the rocks at your feet. Huddled up alltogether in the water, in two or three packs or squads, the startledparents hold their heads and necks high out of the sea, peering keenlyat you, and all roaring in an incessant concert, making an orchestrato which those deep, sonorous tones of the organ in that great Mormontabernacle at Salt Lake City constitute the fittest and most adequateresemblance. Movements when undisturbed on rookery.—You will witnessan endless tide of these animals traveling to the water and a steadystream of their kind coming out if you
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