118 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Table of stomach contents of sea lions — Continued. 



X Indicates that the forms mentioned were present, but their ninuber eould not be determined. 



"Several ".sea pens." 



&Few. 



c Unrecognizable material. 



('Shell apjtarently empty when swallowed. 

 e Filled with clear liquid, in which floated a liglit, 

 yellow, flaky substance. 



The followino- iidditionul information roo-ardino- tli<» number of .sea 

 lions on the California coast has been submitted b}' Mr. Kutter: 



In 1902 the Ano Nuevo rookery contained 150 pups, which would indicate as many 

 adult females. As there are more males horn than females, there is no api)arent 

 reason why there should not have been as nuxny adult males, so that the adults of 

 the herd certainly numbered 300, not including the 1 and 2 year old individuals. 

 The number of pups could not be determined at any of the other rookeries, and 

 there is, therefore, no basis of estimating the number of adults at any point except 

 at Purissima, where the adults themselves could be counted. But as Purissima was 

 not a regular l)reeding rookery in 1901 and 1902, and as it is probable that many of 

 the Ano Nuevo sea lions spent part of the j'ear there, the Purissima coimts can not 

 be relied ujjon for statistical estimates. The most that can ])e said is that there were 

 more sea li(jns at Point Arena tluui at Ano Nuevo l.-^land, and that tlicrc were several 



