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SUMMARY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE 
HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL, Monachus schauinslandi 
LAYSAN AND LISIANSKI ISLANDS 10 - 22 June, 1966 
Pacific Project personnel visited Laysan and Lisianski islands during 
June of 1956 to survey vertebrate populations and band the iraxirourn possible 
number of nesting seabirds. As part of the former objective 
, a census was 
^11 v, on.^ w>eals present on the islands during our visit. 
The following 
is a report based on that census. 
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METHODSS 
or* Layman isiane, a large para of the vertebrate census was accomplished 
tac hours u: - wGG and ~50G on _G Dune by the seven members of the field 
parey walking around the island regularly spaced between the island’s central 
lagoon and the peripheral beaches. Halcomb and Phil Shelton surveyed the 
vertebrate populations along the beach and Scaevcla taccada fringing the beach# 
On Lisianski island, the sea^. count was accomplished between 0930 and 1315 on 
-D Ju.j by one^ton and Halcomb walking around the island along the beach and 
^- ■ fringe# Additional diurnal and nocturnal observations were conducted 
o_* islands as time permitted# On Lisianski island, we spray painted gold 
morns on 34 seals to facilitate later observations. 
A** see_s censused were placed in four categories: Adult, Immature, Pup of 
ur.e year, and Newborn (b^ack pelage#) These categories were further subdivided 
by sex as male, female, or undetermined sex. 
1.2 CULTS: Counts 
Tne data for our seal counts are presented in Table I for both Laysan and 
