REVISED CENSUS OF 1896.” 95 
referred to. Instead of the average correction. of 75 per cent, one of 100 per cent 
would have been more nearly correct. However, since in the original census of 1896 
and in the census of 1897 Kitovi rookery has been taken as typical of the rookeries as 
a whole, we may use its percentage of correction, 91, in the revision. After making 
this correction and such alterations in the estimates of harems as experience shows to 
ee we have the following revised and completed census for the season of 
Revised census, 1896. 
: ST. PAUL. 
Pups 
Rookery. Harems.| | (cows): 
Kitovi. 182 6, 049 
Tagoon .. 120 2, 484 
Polovina ( 86 2, 496 
pated Reef. 176° 3, 862 
Lukanin.... a ee oie os 147 4, 880 
Tolatoi! . cca ccsesece siataccanccaneemse - we : 467 15, 504 
Zapadni® .......--. 22 ---- ees eeen acne nee fa ie 543 18, 027 
Little Zapadn: eMenise 2 2 a 210 4, 584 
Gorbatch .. a ag : “is 302 10, 026 
Ardiguen. . nae RvieuenEe a rEReRGES sal fuc24 6 . $896 
Reef -....-. Giaisie pie insinie ewe iSiieiaig aie : 504° |. 16, 732 
SEV UG Doo sc aisicrsisieracthis did ns Seca eldac mule oe aromeis' siti - 105 3, 486 
Polovina5. . 153 5, 079 
Little Polov. 45 1, 494 
Vostochni 975 32,370 
Morjovi 293 9,727 
Total cases sumenicanye cawewsnnceeseeenoeetoneaeceioses 4, 385 187, 696 
ST. GEORGE. 
North? vccccesceesewesewcscdiveceseee robowdlais Wiettraldtararajspeia.ciaie 200 6, 640 
Little East -|. . 44 1, 350 
East ....... = 135 4, 482 
Zapadni? ..... ro Bee 143 4,747 
Staraya Artel : ! 75 2, 490 
Total 597 19, 709 
RECAPITULATION. 
| §t.Paul.... 4, 835 137, 696 
St. George - f 597 19, 709 
Grand total.........---+- uz Sy geseeweeyeuatcevaseeys * 4,932 | 157, 405 
s : sceaes 
1A reduction of 30 harems from the original estimate. 
2A reduction of 40 harems. . 
3The original count of 650 pups used in the census pf 1896 was made from the cliffs above the rookery under 
circumstances which wake it certain that it is an underestimate It is therefore discarded. 
4 An increase-of 42 harems. 
6 An increase of 15 harems. . \ 
6A decrease of 25 harems. 
7A decrease of 39 harems. 
’ THE VALUE OF THIS CENSUS. 
This elaborated and corrected census of 1896 gives our best possible judgment as 
to the conditions on the rookeries of St. Paul and St. George during the season of 
1896. Therevision and alteration which have been found necessary make the estimate 
more or less unsatisfactory. But no other result could be expected. The census was 
a growth and an experiment from the start. The conditions under which it ought to 
have been made were not understood until the time was passed. Notwithstanding 
