134 THE BULLS. 



c. L. Fowler, p. 25. The cows come to jlie islands between June 1 



and July 20. 



Jno. Fratis, p. 108. The cows appear about the 10th of June, and 



they are all on the rookeries about the middle of 

 July. 



W. S. Hereford, p. 36. The females for the last few years have been 

 somewhat later [than the bulls] in their arrival. 



L. Kimmel,p. 173. The cows did not come till the latter part of the 



month and the first part of June. 



Nicoli End-off, p. 133. The cows begin to haul out in June and they 

 are all on the rookeries about the middle of July. 



The cows begin to haul out in June and take their places on the 

 breeding rookeries beside the bulls, where the 



Jffffci Kushen, p. 129. young pups are born, iii from one to three days 

 after the arrival of the cows. 



My observation has also been that while male seals are sometimes 

 timid about coining ashore, the females being 

 Jno. Malowanslcy, p. about ready to pup, haul up on the land, even in 

 198 - spite of unusual or unfavorable conditions. 



Anton Melovedoff, p. „ Tbe C0 J S be £ in . toban J out early in June, and 

 144. they continue to haul out until about the middle 



of July. 



The females, as a class, begin to appear in June, and by the middle 

 of July the whole of the vast herd maybe said to 

 Jno. M. Morton, p. 66. have arrived and established itself. 



During the latter part of June and the early part of July the cows 

 begin to arrive heavy with young, of which they 



S. E. Netileton, p. 75. are delivered, usually, forty-eight hours after their 

 arrival. 



The mother seals or cows commence to haul out about June 10, and 

 nearly all of them are on the rookeries by July 

 J. C. Bedpath, p. 148. 15th. 



Thomas F. Ryan, p. 174. The cows begin to appear about June. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE HAREMS. 



Page 109 of The Case. 



The male seal establishes himself on the breeding rookery in May or 

 June, when he is 7 or 8 years old, and he fights 

 Ecrrlck Artomanoff, for v^ cows, and does not leave the place he has 

 p ' selected untd August or ^September. 



