CENSUS OF ROOKERIES IN 1896. 



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KITOVI ROOKERY TAKEN AS TYPICAL. 



Applying then the average of Kitovi to the rookeries of St. Paul on which indi- 

 vidual counts could not be made, we obtained the following tentative census for this 



island : 



Census of harems and cotes, St. Paul. 



a Cows and harems counted. 



b Cows and harems counted in part only. All other rookeries were counted only by harems. 



ORIGINAL COUNTS OF ST. GEORGE UNSATISFACTORY. 



The rookeries of St. George had been counted on the 8th, 9th, and llth of July 

 before the counts on St. Paul were made. Later experiences led us to doubt the 

 trustworthiness of these earlier counts, and, furthermore, the condition of the rookeries 

 of St. Paul being different from that witnessed on St. George, it seemed likely that 

 at the time of our first landing on tlie latter island, the season had not yet reached 

 its height. 



This view was strengthened by the fact that while the original count gave to St. 

 George only one tenth as many seals as were found on St. Paul, the former island had 

 furnished more than one-fifth of the quota of killable seals. In the latter part of July 

 we made a more careful count of bulls on Zapadni and North rookeries, which gave 

 a much higher number of families than were shown on the original estimates. Finally, 

 when live pups were counted on Little East Kookery, they were found to exceed the 

 cows counted on the 9th of July by 4 to 1. 



ESTIMATE FOR ST. GEORGE. 



Having these matters in mind, in preparing the estimate for St. George Island 

 last season, a compromise was reached in which all these elements had a share. This 

 estimate was as follows: 



Census of cows and harems, St. George. 



