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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Returning from the rookery a final attempt was made to take a photograph 
from the identical station and with the same lens employed in 1897, but owing to 
the fierce wind and the rain the plate shows nothing beyond the fact that the grass 
now extends over the entire area formerly showing up white— the "sands" and 
" parade grounds " (fig. 2). 
Kishotehnoye Rookery. — The chapter relating to the fur seals on this and many 
other Commander Islands rookeries must now necessarily read like the famous 
chapter on reptiles in Iceland: There are none. Even as late as 1910 there were 
still a few seals left on this beach, which in 1882 was continuous with the Reef 
Rookery, but the seals have long since left it completely (fig. 8). j 
South RooTcery or Poludionnoye RooTcery. — ^This rookery, which was located on 
the west coast of Bering Island about 20 miles south of Nikolski village, is long since 
extinct, as was to be expected. In 1897, when the seals on that small rookery 
were counted, there were only 2 able-bodied harem bulls and about 526 cows. 
The rookery, as such, ceased to exist shortly thereafter. 
! COPPER ISLAND 
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' A visit to the Copper Island rookeries was prevented by the unfavorable 
weather conditions, the shortness of the time available, and the lack of trans- 
portation. The account given the writer by the overseer at Glinka, however, 
was sufficiently detailed to present a fairly reliable picture of the actual situ- 
ation. What was said of the conditions there seemed to us, who had not visited 
the rookeries in question since 1897, almost incredible in spite of our faith in the 
reliability of our informant, but his account received a startling confirmation 
when we witnessed the destruction that had taken place on Bering Island. It 
was a shock to learn that the big complex of rookeries known as the Karabelnpye 
Rookeries had been totally wiped out, not a single seal remaining, and that the 
Karabelnoye vUlage had been abandoned years ago. 
The fur-seal rookeries on Copper Island were formerly distributed' iit'lfVo Idrge 
groups on the west coast of the island with the corresponding sealing villages and 
salt houses on the opposite side, viz, a northern group (Karabelni) about S]4 nautical 
miles south of the main village (Preobrazhenskoye), and Glinka, about the same 
diHance farther south, near the southeastern end of the island. The capacity of 
these rookeries at that time was in excess of the Bering Island rookeries, ^nd 
Karabelni's was slightly less than one-half that of Glinka. For the sake of tini- 
formity the scant data available are given under their separate headings. 
Glinka rookeries. — The Glinka rookeries consist of a string of more or less 
isolated beaches, each with a distinct rookery name, spreading over a stretch of 
coast approximately 5 statute miles long. "From north to south the principal fea- 
tures are named as follows: Lebiazhe, Urili, Zapadnoye, Sabatcha Dira, Palata, 
Za,palata, Sikatchinskoye (Vodopad), Gavarushetche, and Babitche. In 1897 the 
first and the last were inhabited by bachelors only, and the others ranked in impor- 
tance in the following order: Palata, Urili, Zapalata, Zapadnoye, Sikatchinskoye, 
Gavarushetche, and Sabatcha Dira. In 1910, according to Suvorof, the sequence 
