580 



THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOP ISLANDS. 



number of harems, and apply it to those rookeries on which pups were not counted 

 but on which harems were counted. This completed census is as follows : 



Census, 1897. 



Eookery. 



ST. PAUL. 



Kitovl 



Lagoon 



Powvina (cliffs) 



Zapadni Eeef 



Lukanin 



Tolstoi 



Zapadni 



Little Zapadni , 



Gorbatch 



Ardiguen 



Reef 



Sivutch 



Polovina 



Little Polovina 



Vostochni 



Morjovi 



Total 



ST. GEORGE. 



STorth 



Little East 



East 



Zapadni 



Staraya Artel 



Total 



EEOAPITCLATION, 



St. Paul 



St. George 



Total 



Harems. 



179 

 115 



61 

 114 

 139 

 393 

 458 

 176 

 308 



33 

 454 

 102 

 143 



40 

 910 

 233 



196 

 46 

 128 

 133 

 57 



660 



3,868 

 560 



Pups 



(COWB). 



5,289 

 2,598 

 2,200 

 3,041 

 4,100 



11, 693 



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 



129, 216 



AUGUST 4. 



I made a count of the live pups on Ardiguen rookery this afternoon, finding 736 

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

 because of their hiding under the rock piles. 



The count of this rookery last year made by Mr. Townsend and Mr. Crowley must 

 have fallen short of the actual conditions. 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 flat 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-fifths of the pups present. Ten dead pups were found. 



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 pups 

 from under the cliff at the northern end of Gorbatch and found Uncinaria present. 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 in the season. 



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

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

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



