COMPLETED CENSUS OF 1896. 4 '2 9 



If we summarize these various counts of live piips we get the following results : 



lAve-prnp counts. 



Kookery. 



Tolatol Cliffs 



"Elton 



Zapadni Beef 



Lagoon 



Polovina Cliffs 



Northeast Point (west) 

 Northeast Point (east). 



Total 



Cows. 



13, 829 



Pnps. 



It is evident, therefore, that a correction for the absent cows must be added to 

 our former estimates of the rookeries. Taking the average of the total number of 

 rookeries counted, this correction seems to be 75 per cent. With this data at hand we 

 may complete our preliminary census, which is as follows : 



Census of breeding seals amd young, 1896. ' 



Eookery. 



ST. PAUL. 



KitoTi 



liUkanin 



Laffoon 



Tolstoi (main) 



Tolstoi (cliffs) 



'Zapadni 



Little Zapadni 



Zapadni Keef 



Gorbatch 



Ardignen 



Eeef ■- 



Sivntch Bock 



Polovina (main) 



Polovina (cliffs) 



Polovina (little) 



Vostochni 



Moijovi 



Total 



ST. QEOBOE. 



North 



Little East 



East 



Zapadni 



Staraya Artel 



Total 



Grand total 



Harems. 



182 

 147 

 120 

 389 

 108 

 583 

 210 

 176 

 302 



27 

 504 



63 

 138 



86 



45 

 075 

 293 



4,348 



225 

 44 

 135 

 182 

 75 



661 



Cows 

 (count). 



3,152 

 2,543 

 1,474 

 6,729 

 1,498 



10, 085 

 2,400 

 2,266 

 5,224 

 550 

 8,719 

 1,090 

 2,387 

 1,268 

 779 



15, 879 

 4,328 



70, 361 



3,891 

 761 

 2, 335 

 3,148 

 1,297 



11, 432 



81,793 



Actual 

 total. 



6,049 

 4,450 

 2,484 



11, 775 

 2,664 



17,648 

 4,200 

 3,862 

 9,142 

 652 



15,258 

 1,907 

 4,177 

 2,496 

 1,363 



27, 148 

 7,773 



123, 048 



1,350 

 4,086 

 5,S09 

 2,269 



20, 023 



143, 071 



Bobrovl (Otter Island) had 1 harem, containing 5 cows and 5 pups. 



Where counts of live pups have been made these counts are used as they stand, 

 the 75 per cent correction being only applied to rookeries not counted. 



LXTKANIN OLIPFS. 



In the afternoon Mr. Clark visited Lukanin Cliffs. One case of attempted copu- 

 lation between a young 5-year-old bull and a virgin 2 years old was seen. The young 

 bull was awkward and was not successful during the half hour watched. 



'For criticism and revision of this census, see census of 1897. 



