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allowing, as was then done, 17*3 COWS to a harem. Tin- -trict count made upon Ketavie 

 would, as is above -hown. permit tin- addition of J)0 per cent. rather than lit per cent., and. 

 indnd. Dr. Jordan himself speak- ( Preliminary Hi-port, p. '20) of the number of pup- on 

 any rockery bein_- nearly doulile the greatest number of eo\\ - counted upon it at : 

 time. The lower figure is adopted on the ground of a lower result obtained on l^tuoon 

 Rookery and the Reef of Zapadnie. 



We i:;ay now sum up the statements made for thi> .ud last as to the number of 



female -eal- on K< t,.vie. 



Mr. True (Sen. Doe. l-.7. Part II, p. 101, ' ves as the result of an actual count 



made between the Sth ami 10th July, ISO."., a total number of L'.IMO. 



In the same year Colonel Murray estimated the number at *,000, using the very hL'h 

 avenue of forty cows to a harem. Had he set the average at thirty, a number that would 

 now -ecru to be a more reasonable one, his result would have tallied almo-t ex. icily with 

 the n'.oiJt that were this year demonstrated by actual count of the pups; and if we add to 

 Mr. 'hue's actual count of -,<> lo tin increase of 01 per cent, to which the count of the 

 pups now ntitles us, we 'each the figures of 5,042 for 1895, a number which may or not, 

 we plca-e, he employed to indicate a positive increase since that time. 



It is noteworthy that this rookery of Ketavic seemed to the gentlemen who inspected 

 it rive or six years ago to present particularly 'erious indications of loss and diminution. 



In his Report "for 1893 (Sen. Doc. l.T, I 'art II, p. I), 189G) Mr. Townsend says: 



"Keta\ie. now 'he thin:u--t rookery on the islands, shows a percep'.ihle decrease since 



J. This decrease is perceptible in some, if not all, of the photographs of the 



rookery." And, Hiram, in the following year, Mr. Townsend says (ibid., p. 12): "This 



small and gradually diminishing rookery, I believe, siiows a shrinkage since last season, 



but not a very marked one." It may be remarked that in this last Report this was the 



only instance on St. Paul Island in which Mr. Townsend chronicled a shrinkage since the 



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Lukannon. 



Lukannon Rookery is in reality, as has been stated already, continuous with Ketavie. 



It runs irorn the end of the latter rookery along half-a-mile or so of rocky shore, till the 



rocks end in the sandy beach that stretches all the way to Half-way Point and Polavina 



keiv. The hauling-grourul is at the northern end, near the sandy beach. This long 



sandy beach later on in the season, in late August and September, is thickly dotted with 



bulls (rum the adjacent rookeries, as are the sands of Middle Hill and English Bay on the 



other side ot the island. The hauling-ground of Lukannon is said to be remarkable for 



the large proportion of young males that its drives furnish, and is spoken of on the islands 



the nursery " in con-eqiicnce. 



photograph- (Maei.un's No. 0-1, (Jih August, 185)2, Townsmd's No. 1 1, 20th July, 

 ]-!>5. and mine No. L'2, 13th July, No. 23, 15th July, and No. 119, 8th August, 1896) 

 are on different scales and for the most part from different points of view, and hence do 

 not give us very much information as to the relative states of the rookery; but, so far as 

 they can be compared, my No. 119, when regarded together with those of the earlier 

 year-, -how- no perceptible decrease. 



li struck me on our first visit (loth July) that idle bulls were very numerous here at 

 that time, and that the harems were, on the average, of large size. At a convenient point 

 in the middle of the rookery I found the adjacent harems, 1 1 in number, to contain 

 respectively 4?, 4, 'Jo, 17, (50/47, 6, 7, 19, 43, 22 cows, a total of 302 and an avei 

 of27-.j. 



The count accepted by Dr. Jordan give-* 147 harems for the rookery, or 2,54-T c 

 at the usual average ot 17'3, and 4,450 breeding cows, allowing for nn increase of 

 75 pi; cent, on that number. Colonel Murray gave me for the same rookery hi- count 

 made on the 13th July, which places the bulls" and harems at 205, with idle bulls at 1 

 For 1895 Colonel Murray placed the numbers at 300 harems and 200 idle bulls, but it 

 must be remembered that for that year Colonel Murray's stati-tic> were in round 

 mauler- and profe-sedly less accurate "than for 1800. Mcs-r-. True and Townsend for 

 1895 only admitted L',07^ cows for Lukannon Rookery. 



Layoon. 



This little rookery occupies a shingly spit which stretches across from Tolstoi Hill 

 nearly to tic harbour," and separat hay on which the harbour is situated Irom a 



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