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  • Ochotona. Monashee Pass. June 24/36 [1936]. Today went to rockslide type local of O.p. [Ochotona princeps] cuppes [underlined] - + secured 3 pikas 2 [female symbol] + 1 [male symbol], saw 2 others, set several traps. These conies line in a series of small rock slides made up of smallish stones with much earth + rotting wood. Feeding on box, sedges, cedar + grasses. Very wild. Call higher pitched than those of coastal species. Took one Pika in rat trap baited with oatmeal + shot 2 others. One of these was eating the trapped one. Females are nursing. Males have testes enlarged. Moult is beginning, the pelage almost entirely winter Female contained 3 young 32 mm [millimetres] Another [female symbol] nursing. Tappen B.C. [British Columbia] June 29/37 [1937]. Type local of O.p. [Ochotona princeps] brooksi. Took 5 Pikas on roadside 8 miles west of Salmon Arm. Moult well advanced. One [female symbol] nursing, the other 2 carried embryos about 32 mm [millimetres] in length. Males had testes smaller than those on Monashee
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