KITOVI AND LUKANIN ROOKERIES. 521 



intervals of a few hundred feet. From 20 to 40 of these stones are marked with 

 figures on two faces. An attempt (not always successful) has been made to locate 

 them in the median line of the harems. They might have been made twice as 

 numerous to advantage. It is the intention to locate these stones on the maps, so 

 that with their aid the observer can trace in the rookery boundaries. 



I saw the first genuine fighting of the season to-day on Gorbatch. A wet bull 

 had landed and was working his way up to the rear, when a bull attacked him. He 

 tbught well for a time, but was finally forced back into the territory of another bull. 

 The fresh bull got him by one fore flipper and turned him over, throwing him on his 

 back. A third bull came in and seized him by a hind flipper, raising him from the 

 ground and turning him over on his head. Tlie beaten bull limped off slowly and 

 dropped into the water, where he remained motionless. He was very seriously 

 injured. 



KITOVI AND LXJKANIN. 



In the afternoon I went to Kitovi and Lukanin with Mr. Adams. There were 

 156 bulls in all on the former rookery. The bulls here are quite fierce and ready to 

 charge. There were a few young bulls in the rear and more in the water, which were 

 not counted. 



Under the cliffs at Lukanin is a single cow, now first seen at 4 o'clock. Judge 

 Growley says she was not there yesterday afternoon. This is the first cow seen by 

 me on St. Paul. The surveyors working at Tolstoi report 2 there, which arrived on 

 the 10th. 



On Kitovi and Lukanin the surveyors have not been so successful in locating their 

 stones. Instead of being marked as separate rookeries, the numbers run consecutively 

 from the beginning of Kitovi to the end of Lukanin. Kitovi really begins between 

 stones 3 and 4. At the end of Lukanin the numbering is continued through the 

 hauling ground and around to the little reef on the other side of the bight. It will 

 be necessary later to put in separate terminal marks and some special marks to 

 distinguish the hauling grounds, which are here, as on the Eeef, numbered in with 

 the breeding grounds. 



JUNE 13. 



The weather has changed to real Bering Sea weather — thick fog, alternating at 

 intervals to rain and snow. At noon it was clearer, then thickened up again. I 

 visited Lukanin in the afternoon. The bull and cow noted yesterday are now in the 

 wash of the surf. 



The surveyors were asked to discontinue work on the rookeries, to avoid criticism 

 on tjie score of disturbance. They will transfer their work to the interior of the 

 island for the present. 



JUNE 14. 



The weather continues foggy, with occasional showers of rain. 



I visited Lukanin in the afternoon. The cow under the cliff' has moved back 

 from the water's edge to the foot of the cliff and is in charge of a different bull. A 

 second cow is present at some distance away; time, 4 o'clock. 



A small animal which looks like a 2-year-old bachelor lay for some time on the 

 rocks and then started up through the rookery. It had almost reached the outermost 



