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July 29. - 12 noon. 

Low water, with incoming tide.  Cloudy, occasionally drizzling.  S breeze.  Most of the females are on the outer S. rook, only few in the water. 

The count of females resulted as follows

L.S. | Females
On beach | 62
On west rooks | 41
Scattering | 91
S rocks | 198
coming in      6
In the Kelp outside | 30
Total | 428

B. Hamilton's count of females slightly larger.

It being impracticable to count the pups among the