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Chaptku IV. — The Fi;k .Skal ok Sea Ueak— Coutiniii'd. rum. 

 'I'lie rategories of se.al8 — CoiitinuL'd. 



The female .16 



The bachelor JO 



The hall bull 47 



The idle bull 47 



The yearlings aud virgins 17 



The pups 17 



The migrations of the seals 47 



I'heir summer movemeuts 47 



The limits of migration iH 



Its course aud duration 48 



Chapter V.— The Daily Life oi' the R<k>kei:u:s: 



The arrival at the island.^ 49 



The nuiles 49 



Date of earliest arrivals 49 



Till' oldest come first 49 



The bachelors 50 



Statistics of killings ."lO 



Beginning of the sealing season 50 



The arrival of the cows 51 



Their incoming gradual 51 



Their arrival not the occa.sion of fighting 52 



Tlie method of landing 52 



Massed rookery formation ,52 



Daily rookery counts ,53 



Synopsis of Kitovi rookery 53 



The height of the sea-son .53 



Fluctuation of population 54 



Amphitheater of Kitovi .54 



Increase of families 54 



What the height of the season means 54 



The jieriod 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 58 



The departure ol the cows 58 



Methods of discipline 59 



The fighting of the bulls 59 



The early fighting overestimated .59 



No fighting over arriving cows 60 



Fighting infiueuceil by sexual instinct 60 



Manner of fighting 61 



Real lighting 61 



The treatment of the cows 61 



The wounds of the fur seal 62 



The instinct for lighting 62 



The noise of the rookeries 63 



The sleeping seals 63 



