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THE FUR SEALS OP THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



counted are of the scattered bowlder beach sort, it has seemed that the average 

 liarem of Kitovi rookery, which is the largest consecutive breeding ground counted, 

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

 have been counted this average is used in estimating the population of cows. This 

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

 period known as the height of the season. 



JSstimate of cows for St. Paul Island. 



Kookery. 



Kitovi 



Lukanin 



Lagoon 



Xolfltoi (main) 



Tolstoi (cliiis) 



Zapadni 



Little Zapadni 



Zapadni Keef 



Gorbatcli 



Ardiguen 



Reef 



Sivutch' Kock 



Polovina (main) 



Polovina (clitFs) 



Polovina (Little) 



ilfortheast Point (west side) . 



Do 



Northeast Point (east side) . . 



Do , 



Total . 



July 13 



July 20 



July 13 



July U 



'.'.'.'.io '.'.'. 



....do... 



. . . .do . . . 

 July 16 

 July 13 

 July 16 



July 23 

 July 15 

 July 23 

 July 16 



July 16 



Basis. 



Count of both 



Count of harems . ■ 



(Jonntof both 



Count of harems.. 



(Jount of both 



Count of harems.. 



Count of both 



do 



Count of harems. 



Count of both 



Couatof harems. 



do 



do 



Count of both 



Count of harems. 



Count of both 



Estimated 



Count of both 



Estimated 



Harems. 



182 

 147 

 120 

 389 

 108 

 583 

 210 

 176 

 302 



27 

 504 



27 

 138 



86 



45 

 224 

 761 

 112 

 181 



Cows. 



3,153 

 2, 543 

 1,474 

 6,729 

 1,498 



10, 085 



2,400 



2,256 



5,224 



550 



8,719 



467 



2,387 



1,268 



779 



2,887 



12, 992 

 1,194 

 3,134 



69, 738 



Mr. 



^ Altered to 67 harems and 1,090 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 Grorbatch in the morning and Kitovi in the afternoon. 

 Clark visited Ardiguen. 



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

 mometer 44, barometer 30.64. 



ARDIGUEN. 



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

 A's old position. Y, who had 6 cows at the last enumeration, has none to-day, but 

 lies beside his rock with 2 pups. B has only 4 cows; C, 19. D has apparently 32, but 

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

 lies behind D. P has 15 cows. The number of pups still remains undiminished, but 

 they are lower down the slide. A pod of 25 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 first noted with the greenish tinge on the neck is 

 present again to-day, having been present on July 19, but absent on July 20. She 

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



MR. LUCAS'S NOTES ON GORBATCH. 



On Gorbatch a small fresh-looking seal, probably 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. 



