6 SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 
(Station G) by the thinly covered spaces. There was also a perceptible 
thinning among the small bands of breeding seals under the bluffs 
between Little Polavina and the main rookery. Photographed July 28. 
Little Polavina rookery has apparently suffered a slight decrease. 
The wide hauling ground between this rookery and the main Polavina 
was practically bare throughout the season, seals being seen generally 
close to the bluff in the vicinity of the slopes that give access from the 
beach. Photographed July 28. 
Lukannon rookery.—On that part of this rookery where the seals are 
crowded, chiefly between the low bluff and the beach, there has been 
no apparent change, but there were certainly fewer seals than in 1892 
upon the hill that divides this rookery from Ketavie. The hauling 
ground had largely changed from the slope at the west end of the rookery 
to the sand beach just north of it, as shown in the photograph taken at 
station 26. Photographed July 17. 
Ketavie rookery, now the thinnest rookery on the islands, shows a per- 
ceptible decrease since 1892. This decrease is distinguishable in some, 
if not all, of the photographs of the rookery. Photographed July 17. 
Reef rookery.—The hauling grounds at this rookery have not been 
delineated upon the chart for the reason that the bachelors were driven 
‘too often to permit of their lying in a perfectly natural condition. This 
rookery shows a shrinkage under the low bluffs just north of Garbotch 
(indicated on the chart), but otherwise there has been no change that L 
can detect. There was a loss of one or two hundred pups from the 
storm of July 30, 1893. Sea Lion Rock, lying just off this rookery, was 
visited and found to be very evenly occupied by breeding seals. The 
central portions of Reef Point, over which the bachelors travel more 
or less, is becoming distinctively more thickly covered with grass from 
year to year. Photographed July 22. 
Lagoon rookery remains unchanged since 1892. Photographed Au- 
gust 1. 
Tolstoi rookery.—The photographs exhibit only a slight change or 
thinning out of the seals at this place, which is shown more distinctly 
on the chart. There was a loss of perhaps 500 young pups from the 
storm of July 30, 1893. They were swept from the narrow beach 
below the cliff and deposited in a windrow at high-water mark near 
the commencement of the sand beach to the northward. There was 
no other loss of pups here, with the exception of the scattered loss 
from natural causes. Photographed July 22. 
Lower Zapadnie rookery showed no change in number of seals, with 
the exception of one or two breaks along the shingle beach. Photo- 
graphed July 22. 
Upper Zapadnie rookery is the most difficult seal area on the Pribilof 
Islands to examine, and as the weather did not permit the use of a 
boat, the larger bands of seals near the beach could not be approached 
without disturbing the tract of seals in their rear. ‘There has, how- 
ever, been a decrease of seal life here, which is, I think, noticeable on 
the photographs. Photographed July 22. 
ST. GEORGE ISLAND. 
Hast rookery shows very little change since last season, except in the 
distribution of bachelors, the main body of which had hauled out north 
of the pond instead of south of it as in 1892. Owing to the unfavor- 
able points from which this rookery has to be photographed to avoid 
