542 THE FUK SEALS OF THE PKIBILOF ISLANDS. 



close and warm, and 17 seals were overcome by tlie heat on the drive. The skins of 

 all but 4, which were too small, were accepted. 



MK. HCAS'S NOTES. 



I reached St. Paul in the evening and wallved over to Lukanin and Kitovi. There 

 are few seals in tlie liarems and no bachelors are hauled out at the anyle of Kitovi 

 where a number were always to be seen last year. Everything is remarkably quiet, 

 no growling- of bulls and bleating of cows and pups. 



JULY 2. 



A small drive was made this morning for food from Lukanin. Two hundred and 

 eight seals were killed; 107 large and lUl small were turned away. Thirty skins were 

 weighed and found to average 7.7 pounds apiece. The largest skin weighed ll.i 

 l)ounds; there were (5 less than (i pounds. The number of large bulls in this drive 

 was remarkable for Lukanin rookery. 



On Lukanin rookery the number of cows was found this morning to be SSO. The 

 Amphitlieater of Kitovi had 1^90. Numerous cases of copulation were noted. Many 

 cows were seen to land but none to go out. 



REEF. 



I visited the rookeries of Eeef Peninsula in comi)any with Mr. Lucas. The harems 

 are gradually filling up along the bowlder beach. Where harems exist above; the 

 beach they are plainly the result of stealing from larger harems below. The young 

 bulls are wandering about in the rear of Gorbatch in the manner of last year. The 

 cinder slope of this rookery is beginning to fill up with idle bulls. On Ardiguen there 

 are 5 harems at the foot of the slide Two are close to the water; 3 lie behind, the 

 farthest up being nearly halfway to the top. It contains a dead i)up with the placenta 

 attached. It lies in an exposed place, but it may have been stillborn instead of 

 trampled. 



The bachelors on Keef rookery have worked back into their old hauling ground, 

 though they still occujiy the runway in the bed of the pond. 



Tills rookery shows well the manner of tilling the breeding grounds. Ivich one of 

 the large masses which extended inland last season is now marked by a miniature 

 mass of cows which already has pushed out into the Hat above the bowlder beach. 

 The largest mass has between 200 and 300 cows. Bulls hold jiDsitions among them, 

 but the harems are not defined and the cows are as closely packed as they can stand. 

 There are probably many small harems along the be;u'li which are developing slowly, 

 but they are not visible. 



At the extreme northern end of Reef rookery was last year a single harem in an 

 isolated position. There are now 3 bulls; one has 3 cows, another 1, and the third 

 none. All the cows have pups. 



TOLSTOI. 



We walked to Tolstoi I'ookery in the afternoon and by using care were able to get 

 down anuuig the bulls to the very angle of the rookery, thus gnining a near view of 

 the sand tlat. The conditions are singular and interesting. At the sloping foot of the 



