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If Table VI be examined it will be found that the number of cows in a harem varies 

 from 2 to 12, with the average, as stated of 7-8; and that of the 245 bulls 87, or 27-7 

 per cent, have harems below the average, having 470 cows among them with an average 



Table VI 



Harems. Condensed extract from field note-book showing bulls and cows in groups 

 as they were counted, bulls with one cow and their cows being omitted 



of 5-4 cows per bull. Turning now to the remaining 158 bulls, which have harems 

 above the general average, it will be found that they constitute 72-3 per cent of all the 

 bulls, that they have altogether 1445 cows and that their average harem is 9-15 cows 

 per bull. Of the total bulls 58, that is 237 per cent, have harems over 9 in number, 

 possessing as they do 594 cows in all — an average harem of 10-2. 



Having regard to these figures I consider that 9 cows as the average harem can 



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