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cows are pretty evenly distributed up the hillside just south of the cairn, almost up to the top & all the bulls there, except the youngish ones at the very top have some cows. Off toward the point the seals have again spread somewhat over the [[strikethrough]] rock [[/strikethrough]] rock with the pool in it, but they are also high up on the slope behind.
  The back bulls practically all have cows & it would seem therefore that their waiting was not in vain. Should they not be regarded as marking the limits of the rookeries, rather 
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than the harems, which are so much more distinct earlier in the season? Townsend system of marking charts takes the earlier disposition of seals only into account as I understand it. [[strikethrough]] He wanted [[/strikethrough]] When he found that the last rain had caused the seals to move back or "spread" he wanted to mark the charts [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] according to dispositions observed some days earlier & in some instances I think he did so. Do the bulls go back with the cows when the "spreading" takes place, or do the cows only move back to the upper bulls leaving the lower bulls be-