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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



counted are of the scattered bowlder beach sort, it has seemed that the average 

 harem of Kitovi rookery, which is the largest consecutive breeding ground counted, 

 is most nearly typical of the rookeries as a whole, and for those on which only harems 

 have been counted this average is used in estimating the population of cows. This 

 census is tentative and approximate only, but it seems to n't the conditions of the 

 period known as the height of the season. 



Estimate of cows for St. Paul Island. 



Mr. 



1 Altered to 67 harems and 1,090 cows by count and inspection of August 12 

 JULY 24. 



Dr. Jordon and Mr. Macoun went to Northeast Point in the buckboard. 



Mr. Lucas visited Gorbatch in the morning and Kitovi in the afternoon. 

 Clark visited Ardiguen. 



Weather foggy, with glimpses of the sun at intervals; westerly breezes. Ther- 

 mometer 44, barometer 30.54. 



ARDIGUEN. 



Harem A has still his 4 cows under the bank. Harem X has none, and maintains 

 A's old position. Y, who had 6 cows at the last enumeration, has none to-day, but 

 lies beside his rock with 2 pups. B has only 4 cows; C, 19. D has apparently 32, but 

 part of them may belong to E, who seems to have been thrown out of his position and 

 lies behind D. F has 15 cows. The number of pups still remains undiminished, but 

 they are lower down the slide. A pod of 25 are down on the rocks so close to the 

 water that the spray is breaking over them this afternoon. They were evidently 

 there to meet the cows returning from the water. 



It is significant that the cow first noted with the greenish tinge on the neck is 

 present again to-day, having been present on July 11), but absent on July 20. She 

 has been absent four or five days, doubtless at sea. 



MR. LUCAS'S NOTES ON GORBATCH. 



On Gorbatch a small fresh-looking seal, probably a yearling male, wanders about 

 the harems; females snap at him and he moves oil'. There are 7 dead pups on the 

 slope back of the rookery. They have probably strayed and starved. 



