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when the pups were counted on the same place they were twice as numerous as the cows 

 were supposed to be in 1895. Though Colonel Murray's count of harems for St. Paul in 

 Ib95 was approximate only, and expressed in round numbers of hundreds and fifties, it 

 only exceeded by -f^th (4625 to 4348) that of Dr. Jordan in 1896 ; in three instances, 

 Lagoon, Tolstoi, and Zapadnie, it fell far below it. 



I do not analyse these statistics further ; tiiey furnish clear and instructive lessons to 

 those whose business it may hereafter be to unravel them further. 



The following is a tabular recapitulation of the figures quoted in tin- preceding 

 pages : 



