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Aug. [August] 14, 1930.
Left Jasper at 8.15, stopped 5 minutes at Snaring and
5 minutes at Spring Creek. Arrived at Edson 12.45. Time 4
hours, 20 min. [minutes], 118 miles. Left Edson 1.30, stopped 10
minutes to change tire, arrived Edmonton 6.30, time 4 hours
50 minutes, 15 minutes passing grader, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
Total time for 261 miles = 8 hours, 55 minutes. 9 hours approx. [approximately]
Saw Pigeon hawk and rabbit in Park. Flock of Hungarian
Partridges at Chip Lake. Prairie Chicken at Prairie Creek
in Park.
Aug. [August] 15, 1930.
Left Edmonton 2.30, arrived Calgary 10 P.M. Supper in
Red Deer. Saw Swainson Hawks, Marsh Hawks, Richardson
gophers. Skunk dead on road, 30 miles south of Edmonton.
Aug. [August] 16, 1930.
Fine and rain. Left Calgary 9 A.M. arrived Banff 12.15.
Shot 2 Richardsons ground squirrels. Elk horns are shedding
velvet.
Aug. [August] 17 1930.
Rain. In Banff.
Aug. [August] 18, 1930.
Rode in to Cascade Basin to look over the country. Saw
Callospermophilus, Pikas, whistlers, chipmunks. Heard timber-
line sparrow.
Aug. [August] 19, 1930.
Packed outfit. Rain.
Aug. [August] 20, 1930.
Fine and thunderstorm. Packed into Cascade Basin and made
camp. Took fox sparrow; Pikas very common. Froze at night.
Aug. [August] 21. 1930.
Fine and cold. Took 3 chipmunks, 1 Calli. [Callospermophilus], 2 pikas, 2
column [Columbian] ground squirrels, 1 red squirrel, 1 M. [Microtus] mordax, 1 timber-
line sparrow. Saw Gambel's chickadee, Ruby-crowned kinglet,
Wilson's warbler, bald eagle, bluebird, Richardson's grouse,
ptarmigan, W.-t. [White-throated], Gambel's sparrow, chipmunk, eating seeds of
Dryas [underlined].
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