TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHATTER VI. THE CONDITION OF THE FUR SEAL HERD Continued. Page. 



A. Past conditions Continued. 



The estimate for Kitovi and Lukauin 81 



A measure of the overestimate 82 



The counts of Mr. Beaman 82 



Captain Bryant's note 82 



Spilki and Polovina 83 



Personal estimates differ 83 



Elliott's tise of figures 83 



Mr. Tingle's estimate 84 



The estimate incorrect 84 



Elliott's 1890 estimate 84 



This estimate unsatisfactory 84 



The True and Townsend estimate for 1895 85 



The estimate must be doubled 85 



It anticipated the season 85 



Arbitrary reduction for massed rookeries 85 



The estimate revised 8!> 



The important feature of the estimate 86 



Mr. ( 'rowley's estimate for 1895 86 



Colonel Murray's estimate S7 



Defects of this estimate 87 



Contrast of estimates for 1895 87 



Contrast of acreage measurements XX 



Summary of past conditions 88 



A reconstruction of earlier estimates 88 



The earlier and later quotas 88 



The quota dependent upon the breeding herd 88 



Estimates of non-breeding seals 89 



The reconstruction still only an estimate 89 



Completed estimate 89 



B. Present conditions 90 



The census 90 



Its difficulty 90 



Actual counts 90 



Kitovi rookery taken as typical 91 



Census of harems and cows 91 



Original counts for St. George . . 91 



Estimate for St. George 91 



This estimate unsatisfactory 92 



The great excess of pups 92 



Count of pups 92 



Correction for absent cows 93 



Summary of breeding seals 93 



Revision of census of 1896 93 



Corrections on St. George 93 



Corrections on St. Paul 94 



Sivutch Rock 94 



The important error in the census of 1896 94 



Revised census of 1896 95 



The value of this census 95 



The census of 1897 96 



The count of pups in 1897 96 



Comparison of counts of cows and pups 96 



Proportion of cows to pups 96 



Average harem of Kitovi 97 



Census of 1897 .. 97 



