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I'HE FUR SEALS OF THE PKllULOF ISLANDS. 



counted are of the scattered bowlder beaeli sort, it has seemed tliat the average 

 harem of Ivitovi rookery, which is the hirgest (consecutive breeding' };;roiiiid counted, 

 is most nearly typical of the rookeries as a whole, and for those on which only harems 

 have beeu counted this average is used in estimating tiie poijulation of cows. This 

 census is tentative and approximate only, but it seems to tit the conditions of the 

 period known as the height of the season. 



Estimate of cows for St. Paul Island. 



Eookery. 



Kitovi 



Liikaniii 



Lajiooii 



Tolstoi (main ) 



Tolatoi (cliffs) 



Za padni 



Little Zai)a(liii 



Zapailiu Keel' 



Gorbatx^h 



Ardigueu 



Keef 



Si vutch ' Kock 



Poloviiia (main) 



l*olovina (cliffs) 



Polovina ( Little) 



Northeast Point (west side) 



Do 



Northeast Point (east side) . . 



Do 



Total . 



Date. 



Basis. 



. Harems. 



July 

 July 

 .Tuly 



'^1 

 ...do 

 ...do 

 ...do 

 July 

 July 



':± 



July 

 July 

 July 

 July 



July 



Count of both 



Count of harems.. 



Count ot both 



Cimut of harems.. 

 Count of both. . . . 

 Count of harems. 

 Count of both. . .. 



do 



Count of harems. 



Count of both 



Couutof harems. 



Ctnint of both 



(Jountof harems. 



(Ilountof both 



Estimated 



Count of both. . . . 

 Estimated 



182 

 147 

 120 

 3S9 

 108 

 583 

 210 

 170 

 302 



27 

 504 



o- 



138 

 8« 

 45 

 224 

 751 

 112 

 181 



Cowa. 



3,153 

 2,543 

 1,474 

 6,729 

 1, 4!)8 

 10, 085 

 2,400 

 2,266 

 5,224 



550 

 8,719 



467 

 2,387 

 1,268 



779 



2,887 



12, 992 



1, 194 



3. l:i4 



i9, 738 



' Altered to 67 harems and l,(l90 cows by count and inspection of August 12 

 JULY 24. 



Dr. Jordon and Mr. Macoun went to Northeast Point in the buckboard. 



Mr. Lucas visited fxorbatch in the morning and Kitovi in the afternoon. Mr. 

 Clark visited Ardignen. 



Weather foggy, with glimpses of the sun at intervals; westerly breezes. Ther- 

 mometer 44, barometer .50.54. 



ARDIGITEN. 



Tlarem A has still his 4 cows under the bank. Harem X has none, and maintains 

 A's old position. V, who had cows at the last enumeration, has none to-day, but 

 lies beside his rock with 2 pujis. V> has only 4 cows; C, 19. 1) has apparently 32, but 

 part of them may belong to E, who .seems to have been thrown out of his position and 

 lies behind 1>. F has 1.3 cows. The number of pups still remains undiminished, but 

 they are lower down the slide. A pod of 2.") are down on the rocks so close to the 

 water that the spray is breaking over them this afternoon. They were evidently 

 there to meet the cows returning from the water. 



It is significant that the cow tirst noted with the greenish tinge on the ueck is 

 present again to day, having been present on July 1!», but absent on July 20. She 

 has been absent four or five days, doubtless at sea. 



MR. LUCAS'S NOTES ON GORBATCH. 



On (rorbatch a small fresh-looking seal, ])robably a yearling male, wanders about 

 the harems; females snap at him and he moves off. There are 7 dead pups on the 

 slope back of the rookery. They have probably strayed and starved. 



