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Show of tho pelagic catches of 1895 and 1S9C discose the fact that 03 to 85 . per cent of fta klns were taken from j gravid and nurlshlug females. The . young-of there mother seals (lied iiu-'l born or of starvation on the rookeries. rook-eries. The wri'er counted IG.ouo young1 fur seal pups whieli died of starvation starva-tion on the rookeries of the pribylov islands in the fall of 1S9G a u rog milt of pelagic sealing for that Ken-son. Ken-son. In l no'j be found by actual count I that. 13 5 per cent of the birth rate of that season were dead or dying of starvation' n -'August of that year. From 1S7H to the present tlmo this hunting of gravid and nursing females has gone steadily on. with the consequence conse-quence that the herd of fur seals belonging be-longing to the United States has been reduced from 2,500,uo0 animals to less than loO.OOO animals George Archibald Archi-bald Clark In the Popular Science Month I v. POACHERS EXTERMINATING ' SEALS. The males of the ful seal herd in tho ehrlng sea having ben reduced i in numbers bv land killing;, the Te-males Te-males predominate In the herd as I found at sea. On lard the young males j are forced to herd by themselves i through fear of the adult males. They I can he readily distinguished anil handled without disturbance to the ' breeding herd. At sea the sexes can- ' not be d.?tnguished. On the spring migration the mother seal is heaw villi, young, and hence less swift In her movements. On the summer feeding feed-ing grounds she must Iced regularlv j and heavily through riecessrltv nour- i lshiug her young. As a result, the 1 pelagic catch Is made up chief! v of ' the breeding females luvestiga'tions |