FUR SEALS AND OTHER LIFE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, I914. 17I 



POLOVINA CLIFFS ROOKERY, ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



This rookery consists of several interrupted groups of harems occupying a narrow strip of rough 

 boulder beach at the foot of a line of low cliffs, behind which extends a level mossy plain. On June 27 

 there were 18 harem bulls in this rookerj-, 11 of which had a total of 38 cows. 



At the height of the season 22 harems and 6 idle bulls were stationed here. The count taken July 29 

 showed that i ,449 pups were born in these harems. 



A very few bachelors haul out in the vicinity of this rookery; on July 28 the number found was 47. 



LITTLE POLOVINA ROOKERY, ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Little Polovina lies a short distance north of Poloviua Cliffs and is similar in character to Polovina 

 Cliffs. On June 27 it held 11 harem bulls, 6 of which had 28 cows among them. On July 19 the 

 number of harems was 18. The count later showed that 927 pups were born here. On the small hauling 

 grotmd about 50 bachelors were usually found. ^ 



MORJOVI ROOKERY, ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Morjovi is on the eastern side of Northeast Poijit, and separated from the larger rookery of Vostochni 

 by the breeding herd of sea lions. It consists of two rather compact detached harem masses, with a 

 few scattered outlying ones, and is the remnant of a rookerj' which formerly extended far down the 

 shore. On Jime 27 it had 35 breeding bulls, and on July 19 there were 43 harems and 4 idle bulls. On 

 this rooker>' 2,312 pups were born. 



Adjoining Morjovi Rookery are two small hauling groimds, on which about 400 bachelors were 

 usually found. 



VOSTOCHNI ROOKERY, ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



This rookery, which is nearly continuous over a stretch of rocky shore line more than a mile in 

 length, is the largest rookery of fiu- seals in the world. When first visited, on June 27, 248 harem bulls 

 were stationed there. At the height of the season, 291 harems and 20 idle bulls were fotmd. The count 

 of pups later showed that 19,709 had been bom in these harems. 



From tlie summit of Hutchinson Hill one looks down on a closely packed mass of harems which 

 at the height of the season in 1914 held 106 harem bulls. The coimt of pups on August 2 showed a total 

 of 9,504 in this mass, which, with their mothers and the harem masters, makes a total of over 19,000 

 breeding seals in one compact mass. Smrounding this particular breeding area on three sides is a 

 hauling ground usually containing several thousand bachelors. On the various hauling grounds of 

 Vostochni, 3,652 bachelors were counted on July 28. In former years the hauling grounds of Northeast 

 Point were m jch more populous than at present and furnished nearly one-third of the total quota of 

 skins for St. Paul Island. 



On the point near the eastern extremity of this rookery is a breeding rookery of sea lions, the only 

 one on St. Paul Island. 



NORTH ROOKERY, ST. GEORGE ISLAND. 



North Rookery lies about a mile west of the village and consists of a narrow fringe of harems occu- 

 pying a strip of rough beach at the foot of low abrupt cliffs. There were 85 harems on July 13, and 94 

 harems and 4 idle bulls at the time of the official count on July 20. In these harems were bom 5,301 

 pups. About 100 bachelors usually resorted to the small hauling ground. 



STARAYA ARTEL, ST. GEORGE ISLAND. 



This rookery comprises a compact mass of harems on a hill, one side of which breaks suddenly to the 

 water and another sweeps gradually to the same level. 



There were 46 harems here on July 13 and 63 harem bulls and 4 idle bulls on July 20. The coimt 

 later showed that 4,278 pups were bom here. On the hauling ground there were usually from 500 to 600 

 bachelors. 



