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- Ochotona p. [princeps] cuppes
Monashee Pass., B.C. [British Columbia] June 24, 1936.
Today went to the rock slides
in the pass - the type locability [locality]
of the race + secured 3
conies, two females + a male,
saw two others we did not
get. Set several traps.
These conies live in a series
of small rock slides made
up of smallish stones + much
earth + rotten wood.
They are feeding on sedges,
false box, cedar + grasses.
Very wild + with a less
intense + slightly higher
pitched call than that of
the coastal Pikas.
June 25, 1937. Monashee Pass.
Took one Pika in rat
trap baited with oatmeal
+ shot two others - one of
which was eating the one
in the trap. It had already
eaten an ear + one eye.
I noticed a preference on their
part for inhabiting the rockslides
near decaying tree trunks.
Photographed the slide on
both VP. [Verichrome Pan] + 3X4 film.
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