Till-: s/-;.i Li(>\< (>!■• (\i.ii-()i;m \ 



•>x\ 



>. ,, II, .11 \'\\\<-. >lio\viiit; liow III.- ljoii\ I- lilliil 

 from till' Krouiui and tlu' liiinl flii>i>er is linil fur- 

 wi»r<I in walking 



lillll> I;lki' ll'i l'o(i(i \vll!ltt'\cr. Ill cjlcll 

 nl" I'dUrtrcli l.rccdillLT l)ull> >ll'it ;lt lllc 



(•ml nf ilic >c;i>tiii llic .-tiimncli \\;i> 

 roiiiiil ciniity. 



(>lic |)|-iil)|r||| I li;|(| ill lllillil \\;i> 



ulu'llu'i" ii |m|i wiiiild \h' mIIowciI t(t 

 iiiir--i' rnim niiv Inil il> i>\\ii iiiullicr. 



()rirll I li;l\r MTll ;l |MI|i cMinr HKsiniT 

 ll|i 111 .1 cnu ;iliil 111' Jiicki'il lip liy lllf 

 neck Mini tlll-iiWll Ifll III- twelve fcrt 

 il\v;iv. ("11(1 n\cr clid, so tllMt it was :i 

 woiidi'i" its ii('(l< Wiis nnt hnikcii <>r it> 



skull rrilclUP'd. SniiK'tillirs the ])ll|» 



Wniild hiiid ;iL;;lill-l nV llriir Jlllnlllcr coW 

 wliicli Wdijjil niiLirily lliniw il ;iL'-;iiii. 

 ( )ii(t' I >,i\\ .'i |iii|i ! Iiii> t liruw 11 I lircc 

 limes liel'ore it Uii> allowed to rest, 

 'riiouirh the ])U|i may not know its 

 mother, there is no douht that the 

 mother knows her piifi. It was a cnni- 

 nion si^dit to sco a eow 1:0 through a 

 lot (d' |iii|i>. iMishiiiLT llii'iii asifle \intil 

 she I'uund her own, whieh she wouhl 



had quite a ,iramo of toss and eatcli until 

 -lie heeanie enra^joil and chased \\\v. 



I found, durin^r a count 

 of two breed inij seasons, 

 (hat more males were born 

 than females. What be- 

 comes of the excess males 

 is difficult to determine. 

 At the rookeries there are 

 two or three times as many 

 females as males. Some 

 of the hulls are perhaps 

 killed in their fights, and 

 one man asserted that most 

 of the breeding bulls die 

 at the end of the breeding 

 "■eason. .\t any rate, all of 

 the old bulls leave the 

 rookery by the first of 

 .Fuly, and it is .<aid none 

 are .M'cn until the next sea- 

 son. The bachelors stay, 



however, and niav be seen on the eoa.-t cuddle be>ide her with the greatest sat- 

 at any time. But even if all of the isfactioii. 



breeding bulls die, that does not ac- Once 1 marked a pup whose mother 



count for the elimination of two tliir<l> had been killed so that I coidd recog- 

 of the males. iiize it at a distance. I watched it for 



The cows fre(|uently leave the rook- ten days, but after three or four days 

 eiv to get food, but during the three or it began to grow thinner ami thinner 

 tour weeks of the breecling season the from day to day. It often tried to 



.Some of tlu-ni look :it \ti\\. imininn 

 to note particularly your apjiroai-h 



