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CHAPTER IV. THE FUR SEAL on SKA BEAK Continued. Page. 



The categories of seals Continued. 



The female 46 



The bachelor 46 



The half bull 47 



The idle bull 47 



The yearlings and virgins 47 



The pups 47 



The migrations of the seals 47 



Their summer movements 47 



The limits of migration 48 



Its course and duration 48 



CHAPTER V. THE DAILY LIFE OF THE ROOKERIES: 



The arrival at the islands 49 



The males 49 



Date of earliest arrivals 49 



The oldest come first 49 



The bachelors 50 



Statistics of killings 50 



Beginning of the sealing season 50 



The arrival of the cows 51 



Their incoming gradual 51 



Their arrival not the occasion of fighting 52 



The method of landing 52 



Massed rookery formation 52 



Daily rookery counts 53 



Synopsis of Kitovi rookery 53 



The height of the season 53 



Fluctuation of population 54 



Amphitheater of Kitovi 54 



Increase of families 54 



What the height of the season means 54 



The period currently misunderstood -_ 55 



The birth of the pup 55 



The feeding of the cows : 55 



Swimming seals 55 



The seal digests its food in the water 56 



The evidence of the pups 56 



The fasting of the seals 57 



The harem 57 



Large harems 57 



Harem sizes 58 



Harem discipline 5S 



The departure of the cows 58 



Methods of discipline 59 



The fighting of the bulls 59 



The early lighting overestimated 59 



No fighting over arriving cows 60 



Fighting influenced by sexual instinct 60 



Manner of fighting 61 



Real lighting (51 



The treatment of the cows 61 



The wounds of the fur seal 02 



The instinct for fighting 62 



The noise of the rookeries 63 



The sleeping seals 63 



