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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



iiiiiuberof harems, and apply it to those rookeries ou which pups were not counted 

 hut ou wliich bareius were couuted. This completed census is as follows: 



Census, 1S97. 



Kookery. 



ST. PAUL. 



Kitori..... 



Lagoou 



Poloviua (clitfs) 



ZiiiKulni Keef 



Lukanin 



Tolstoi 



Zapadni 



Little Zapadni 



Gorbatcli 



Ardigueu 



Eeef , 



Sivutch 



Polovina 



Little Polovina 



Vostochni 



Morjovi 



Total 



ST. GEOEOE. 



North 



Little East 



East 



Zapadni 



Staraya Artel 



Total 



KECAPITULATION 



St. Paul 



St. George 



Total 



Harems. 



179 

 115 



61 

 lU 

 139 

 393 

 458 

 176 

 308 



33 

 454 

 102 

 143 



40 

 910 

 233 



196 

 46 

 128 

 133 

 57 



3,858 

 560 



Pups 

 (cows). 



5,289 

 2, 598 

 2, 200 

 3,041 

 4,100 



11,593 



13.511 



5,192 



9,086 



736 



13, 393 

 3,009 

 4,218 

 1,180 



26, 845 

 6,873 



112, 864 



5,782 

 1,190 

 3,776 

 3,923 

 1,681 



16, 352 



112,864 

 16, 352 



AUGUST 4. 



I made a count of the live i^ups on Ardij;uen rookery this afternoon, flnding 736 

 iu all. These figures are very nearly correct, though it is difficult to get all the pups 

 because of their hiding under the rock piles. 



The count of this rookery last year made by Mr. Town.send and Mr. Crowley mu.st 

 have fallen short of the actual conditious. The rookery has certainly thinned out, 

 and whereas 78 cows were above the mouth of the flat last year on the 14th of July, 

 this year not a cow or pup is visible on the thit and only 4 cows have been there at 

 any time during the season. The count of pups last year gave 650, which probably 

 represents not more than four-tifths of the pups i)resent. Ten dead pups were fouud. 



Ten additional bulls were killed from Zoltoi sands for museum purposes. Mr. 

 Lucas killed a 2-year-old cow for dissection. He dissected a number of dead j tups 

 from under theclitf at the northern end of Gorbatch and found ("iicliiarid ju'csent. A 

 little flat which last year's photograph shows to contain 17 dead pups has to-day only 

 6. It has not been occupied to any extent this season. A few pups pod there but no 

 cows were there iu the season. 



A line of pups extends up to the very edge of the slope at some distance this side 

 of Old John's Kock. No cows are among them yet, Vmt eventually the cows will 

 haul back. At this time last year the entire slope was tilled with cows and pups. 



