STATISTICS OF STARVED PUPS. 



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the accuracy of which can not be questioned. The following table will give in detail 

 the statistics of the estimate: 



Pup statiatim — nummary. 



Rookery. 



ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Kitovi 



Lukaiiin 



La^uoii 



Tolstoi 



Zapadni 



Little Zapadni.. 

 Zapadni Reef... 



Gorbatc-li 



Ardiguen 



Reef 



Sivutch Rock... 



Polovina 



Little Polovioa. 



Vostochni 



Morjovi 



Total 

 born. a 



Total 



Addition of 20 per cent for loas between 



A ngust and October conn t s 



Starving pups to be added as starved 



Addition for bodies taken for dissection . . . . 



6.049 

 4,450 

 2,481 



14, 4:19 



17, 648 

 4,200 

 3,862 

 9,142 

 652 



15,258 

 1,907 

 6,673 

 1,363 



27, 148 

 7,773 



August, i October. ' 



Starved. Starving 



500 

 374 

 238 

 554 



1,300 

 559 

 223 



1,166 

 7« 



1,836 



234 



920 



72 



1,525 

 445 



42 



27 



51 



191 



154 



64 



18 



126 



8 



300 



31 



55 



22 



329 



109 



123,048 



Total starved. 



ST. GEORGE ISL.\ND. 



Xorth 



Staraya Artel . 



Zapadni 



East 



Little East .... 



Total 



Starving pups added as starved 



Total 



Grand total for bntb islands. 



6,809 

 2,269 

 5,509 

 4,086 

 1,350 



259 



135 

 199 

 112 

 31 



20, 123 



145 

 194 

 527 

 15 

 16 



10, 022 



2,061 

 1,527 



150 



1,527 



13, 7G0 



762 



253 

 617 

 457 

 151 



62,240 

 19 



2,359 



143,071 11,045 I 21,228 



1,546 



a These are the figures of the original census of 1896 as published in the preliminary report of 

 that year. 



"(< The Azures herein given for slarveil pups on the rookeries of St. George are estimates ba.sed 

 u])on the conditions of St. Paul. 



STARVED PUPS IN 1897. 



The investigations of the season of 1897 have made the count of dead pups in 

 1896 seem still less satisfactory. It may be said that the dead pups lie (concealed 

 among the rocks, and as they quickly wear away under the action of the elements and 

 the trampling of the living animals they are not easily seen in the hasty inspection, 

 which alone is possible in counting tliem. A good illustration of the probable 

 inadequacy of the counts of dead bodies is shown by the results on Kitovi rookery. 

 A count of this breeding ground, made with a good deal of care on the 3d of August, 

 disclosed 12(i dead bodies. When a week or ten days later the carcasses were actually 

 gathered up and removed from the beach, the closer inspection disclo.sed L'02 dead. 

 This inadequacy of the counts of dead pups in 1896 is, however, of such a nature as 

 to make the case all the stronger, because it leaves an under, rather than an over, 

 estimate. 



