CENSUS OF ROOKERIES IN 1896. 



91 



KITOVI ROOKERY TAKEN A« I'YPICAL. 



A])plying then the average of Kitovi to the rookeries of St. Paul on whicli indi- 

 vidual counts coulil not he made, we obtained the following tentative census for this 

 island : 



Census of harems and cows, St. Paul. 



Kookery, 



Kitovi a . . 

 Lukanin . 

 Lagoon o - 



Date uf 

 count. 



Harems. 



July 13 



July 20 



„ - July 13 



Tolstoi (main) I July 14 



Tolsloi (dill's) a 



Zaiiadiii 



Little Zapadni 



Zapadni Itt^ef a 



Gorbatch 



Ardiguen a 



Reef 



Siviitch Kock 



Polovina (main) 



Polovina (i^liff8)a 



Polovina ( Little) 



Vo.stochni 6 



Morjovi 



Total. 



.lulv U 



JulV U 



July 14 , 



July 14 



July 16 



July 16 i 



July 16 



Aug. 12 



July 23 



July 15 



July 23 



July Ifi 



July 16 



182 

 147 

 120 

 389 

 108 

 583 

 210 

 176 

 302 



27 

 504 



63 

 138 



86 



45 

 975 

 293 



Cows. 



3,152 

 2,543 

 1,474 

 6,729 

 1,498 



10, 085 

 2,400 

 2,256 

 5,224 

 550 

 8,710 

 1,090 

 2,387 

 1,268 

 779 



15, 879 

 4,328 



4,348 70,361 



a Cows and liareina counted. 



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



ORIGINAL COUNTS OP ST. GEORGE UNSATISFACTORY. 



The rookeries of St. (reorge had been counted ou the 8th, 0th, and 11th of July 

 before the counts on St. Paul were made. Later e.xperiences 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 lauding ou the 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 islaujj had 

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

 we made a more careful count of bulls ou 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 Ifookery, they were found to e.\ceed 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 liarcms, SI. (Icorge. 



Rookery. 



North 



Little Ea.st... 



East , 



Staraya Artel 

 Zapadni 



Total .. 



061 



