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note that there are about a dozen bulls lying out on Lukaniu sand beach in the same 

 position where they were noted last summer soon after our landing. They were then 

 popularly referred to as worn-out bulls, or those which had been driven off the 

 rookeries. They will doubtless come back to try again later on, and are at present 

 like the young bulls and the idle bulls as a class, shifting about. They can be seen 

 wandering about behind the harem bulls or swimming about in the water. 



On Lagoon rookery for some time there have been bulls on the side of the reef 

 toward the lagoon. These have now disappeared, probably attracted to the other 

 side by the landing cows. It will be some time before the cows will be numerous 

 enough to work their way over. The lagoon channel is fast filling up. 



JUNE 22. 



A count of bulls on the Amphitheater of Kitovi showed 46 bulls still present, 

 though 3 new ones, or rather hidden ones, were found under the cliff at the lower 

 edge. Some of the bulls in the rear have probably moved on. There are 23 cows 

 and 6 pups. In the matter of pups, however, it is impossible to be certain about 

 them, as they lie sleeping in crevices in the rocks. 



The largest harem on the rookery has 7 cows. Its size is evidently the result of 

 its advantageous location at the angle of the cliff, where access is easy. 



Prom the way in which the harems are formed under the cliffs on Lukanin, it 

 would seem that the line of bulls nearest the water gets all the cows. These bulls 

 have become alert now, and a cow rarely gets past them. The cows themselves show 

 a disposition to enter harems where other cows are. 



The cow which has been out so long (since the 12th) has a companion to-day, and 

 our last observation harem has been lost. One by one the harems whose occupants 

 we have had under observation have become confused through the accession of 

 new cows. 



The gashed cow seen to arrive at 3.30 yesterday afternoon has just given birth to 

 a pup at 11 to-day. On the point of rocks in the Amphitheater a cow which arrived 

 on the 19th at 9.30 gave birth to her pup today at 4.15. A pup was born to the 

 fourth cow on the rocks where the dead one is between 11 and 1.30 this afternoon. 

 The mother of the dead pup has not been seen to indicate her loss in any way, either 

 by calling to her pup or by showing any attention to its dead body, on which she lies. 

 The same thing is true of the cow on the Amphitheater, whose pup has apparently 

 disappeared. 



There is certainly little maternal solicitude and affection wasted on the pup far 

 seal. For a few minutes after birth the mother calls over the pup and acts as if she 

 would shield it from the trampling of her sisters or of the bull. A gull alighted 

 persistently for half an hour on the rocks to peck at the placenta near a newly born 

 pup. The mother, as often as the gull alighted, lifted the pup away by the skin of the 

 neck and then drove off the bird. But this is the limit of care on the part of the 

 mother, and this even is not shown apparently after the first day. 



TOLSTOI. 



I went to Tolstoi this afternoon. The large pod of bachelors still hold their 

 position at the angle of the sands. The little harems are still among them. There are 



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