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a.z'ound Sa.kllalin, in `l'atar.slcii Strâit, - and,' in the Kurile I::la,nds re,;i,on.
The southern limit of its range includes the racii'ic coast of Japan
and the entire Sea of Japan as far as 370 I.
I . Pnc. 47. PacnlwcTp2 nerrue r.apru n z)o:)ensr Pllxap;(a.
Fig. 17. Ranges of larga and Richard' s se-a-1.
Key: 1) L1;;3R. 2)U.S.A. 3) Canada. zj) Boring S ea. 5) Sea
of Okhotsk. 6) Aleutiai! Islands. 7) Hokkaido Island. Cs) Honshu
Island. 9) U.S.A. *10j Guadalupe Island.
During the ba,eed.in^; and moultirig periods the seals form rookeries
on drift-ice. In the Bering Sea these rookeries are 'formed
mainly in the eastern part -- on the :i'ribylov I„lands ana huniva.1;
Island,, and farther east, inc'ludinU Bristol Bay; the :,eal concentrations
are gradually moved northward into the t3t. i,;a.tthew Island, area
by the ïtriftin^ of the the. i'her.e are fewer rooicea'ie.,. in the western
part of t))e' ï3erinr, Sea.
Rookeries are to be founr_ on off-,shore masses
of drift-ice on the eastern coasts of Lamchatica, Ctiukotka, and -the
Gulf of Anadyr; the seals remain in these regions until the icefloes
have finally rrreltec:.
In the Sea of Okhotsk rookeries are formed on the ice in the
northern and noa: the,>..:terl; parts (west coast of i:rl::lchatltia, Ya.l:rs:ca.ya
and !'cluisk.n,ya. ;.cl,y:;l and in tll.u :louthea.:ztez'ri part koc-+st coc.lst of
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roolCCriC:r 0.:'(: 01)1.'F?].veù. ].l: till-l western part ou the :;C(l, Ùetwhen i%y1'll
C11 (1 (.)iChotSk. Un tlll. }•lhole, tlw ::eell^ m7-a.r1L(1.7.1 ti:eir rookeries in
thC: ).),lnl(: M ( a "; t.l:z'o].i 1^)tlt tire.ia: :Lce-,wel.lirl,; j,er.i.o(1 Of ].if; .l. L ia
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