THE ROOKERIES OF ST. PAUL. 37 
great sand beach known as “North Shore,” to the tip of the point itself. It occupies 
for the most part beaches of coarse bowlders, with occasional outcroppings of harems 
on the flat ground above. The line of harems is frequently broken by short stretches 
of sand beach, which are used by the bachelors as runways to reach their hauling 
grounds. On the seaward slope of Hutchinson Hill, which forms the highest part of 
the peninsula, the rookery becomes greatly widened and closely massed. Late in the 
season harems were even found at the summit of the hill. 2 
From this point to the end of the rookery the harems scatter along the bowlder 
beach in a narrow band. About midway to the end is a small sea-liou rookery. At 
the eastern angle of Hutchinson Hill and on the sand beach behind Cross Hill are the 
most important hauling grounds of the rookery, though at the present time, owing to 
the numerous breaks in the lines of breeding seals, small pods of bachelors are to be 
found at a large number of other places. 
2, Morjovi (of the walrus).—The line of division between this and the preceding 
rookery is a purely arbitrary one. At the point there is a considerable break in the 
line of harems and behind isa small hauling ground. The harems resume and follow 
along the bowlder beach as before for a short: distance. Then a break occurs, with a 
runway for the bachelors and another sea-lion rookery. Beyond this is the principal 
portion of the rookery. It consists of a large body of harems closely massed and lying 
back_.on the flat at the angle of the sand beach at Walrus Bight. Behind and to the 
west of this mass is the great hauling ground of Morjovi rookery. Beyond the sand 
beach scattering groups of harems occur on the sides of a long, narrow, tongue of land 
jutting out to the eastward, called Sea Lion Neck. Another sand beach intervenes, and 
the rookery ends in a considerable mass of harems grouped about a rocky point nearly 
opposite Webster Lake, on the eastern side of the peninsula. An unimportant hauling 
ground lies at the extreme end of the rookery. 
Vostochni and Morjovi combined furnish the greatest continuous fur-seal rookery 
on the two islands. Along their 3 miles of coast line are upward of 100,000 fur seals - 
of all classes, about one-fourth of the total number on the Pribilof Islands. From 
the‘summit of Hutchinson Hill a bird’s-eye view of the two rookeries can be had, and 
the sight is a most impressive one. A greater number of fur seals (or for that matter . 
any other animals) is to be seen here than for any other point in the world. 
8. Polovina (halfway).—This rookery; as its name indicates, is located halfway 
between Northeast Point and the village. The main part of the rookery lies massed 
upon the beach and the flat above the cliffs that rise from the low reef of Polovina 
Point and shade down with a gentle slope to the great sand beach which stretches 
away 2 miles or more to Stony Point. At the angle of the sand beach the bachelors 
make their way to the hauling ground in the rear of the massed portion of the rookery. 
a competent Russian scholar, Mr. Alexis V. Babine, librarian of the University’of Indiana. Much 
confusion in the records has arisen through the current use of a Russian and English name for the 
same place, as fur example, Zapadni and Southwest Bay, Polovina and Halfway Point. We have in 
each case tried to select the most suitable name for the purpose, and itis to be hoped that in the 
future agents and others concerned will conform to the usage here adopted. We have given a separate 
name to each of the three parts of what has been generally known as Zapadni. The great rookery 
lying about the shores of Northeast Point has been divided for convenience at the tip of the point. 
It has been thouglit best, because of the importance it has obtained through the frequent observations 
made upon it during this investigation, to designate as Ardiguen rookery, a small detached breeding 
area‘on Reef'peninsula.. . 
