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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt:... Appendix E. FOOD OF THE FUR-SEAL. CONTENTS OF STOMACHS OF FUR-SEALS KILLED AT THE PRIRILOF ISLANDS. August 1-3, 1891. One hundred and eighteen stomachs of fur-n,,,,TM1 p.ribiio" seals were examined jointly by the United States and British Bering Sea Commissioners at St. Paul and St. George Islands, August 1 and August 3, 1891, with the following results: All the stomachs were opened immediatelyst"a"8ent8 of after the seals were killed. Ninety-three out of the one hundred and eighteen were empty, except for the presence of a little mucus, bile, frothy slime, dark brownish blood, and parasitic worms. Blood in some form was present in five stomachs, and nematode worms about three inches in length were found in most of the stomachs opened. Twenty contained pebbles, or pebbles and beach-worn shells, either alone or in connection with other contents, the quantity varying from from a single small pebble to a handful. 271ti 50 393 Contents of Four contained beaks of squid or cuttlefish stomachs. (identified by Dr. William H. Dall as probably Gonatns fabricit), of which three sets were in one stomach, two sets in another, and one each in the remaining two. Two contained fish bones, of which one consisted of the vertebrae and a few other bones of a cod (Gaddus morrhua); the other the ear bones of a similar fish. One contained a large Isopod crustacean (identified by Prof. Sidney I. Smith as "apparently a species of Bocinela, a genus very close to JEga"). One contained a small bit of kelp. CONTENTS OF STOMACHS OF FUR-SEALS KILLED IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. April 22-May 1, 1892. Examination The stomachs of 104 fur-seals killed by made at Wash-» ington,D.c. pelagic sealers in the North Pacific off southeastern Alaska, April 22-May 1, 1892, between latitude 56 45'...