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Aug. 9, 1895
Clear Went to Kelaire.  The rookery looks broken up, so many cows are away.  At station no. 14 fam. 1 has 5 cows; fam. 2 has about 13 cows.  The next fam. above has only 3 cows. Bachelors are wandering over the rookery.  The flat rock is bare except on the outer edge.  I think fam. 2 has a different bull from the original one.  It is probable that the Neck family which is entirely gone, united with the remnant of fam. 2 & the Neck [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] bull presides over the whole.
Pups swimming in great numbers.  No new dead pups- Saw 2 females call their 

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pups out of the pods & I think there is no doubt they know their own pups.
No copulation & no new dead pups.  Pups very large & fat.
Bachelors over by Kelaire pt. are lying on the grass in a long angle.  On the sta. 14 cairn they were numerous, so that I could not go up there this time.