FUR-SEAL INDUSTEY OF THE COMMANDER ISLANDS 
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Pyeshkof, and the native overseer, about 100 bulls, "idle" or otherwise, were actu- 
ally seen, but it would not be surprising if there were as many more lying down 
among the females or hidden behind rocks which escaped ovir observation. After 
a reconsideration of all the various factors involved, we reaffirm our first im- 
pression that the total number of seals, exclusive of pups, on North Rookery on 
July 28, 1922, did not equal the rough count of seals on Kishotchnoye Rookery 
Pistributton ofSeafs mZ 
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Fig. 8.- 
-North Rookery, Bering Island, showing distribution of seals July 28, 1922, according to Stejneger 
on July 16, 1897, viz, 3,000 (Asiatic Fur-Seal Islands, p. 166). The seals were 
lying in a comparatively thin belt along the western edge of the Reef proper, from 
the extreme northern point of the "peninsula" halfway down toward the large 
rock marked on the map as Babin. In addition, two harems were seen on the 
outlying rock known as Little (Mali) Sivutchi Kamen, while a few others, 
probably less than a dozen, were located on the outer or northern side of Sivutchi 
Kamen itself (fig. 8) . 
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