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- June 24, 1930.
Took 1 jumping mouse and 2 Peromyscus on bank of
Athabasca. In evening set muskrat traps on Talbot Lake.
Took large male beaver and by some chance it it in skull!
Saw 6 more beaver, 1 moose and 4 deer and 1 goat. Ring-neck
duck on Talbot Lake. Mr. [Frank] Bryant reports seeing fisher tracks
in the Tonquin Valley in fall of 1929. No mink tracks seen
on Athabaska [Athabasca] in last 4 years by him.
June 25, 1930.
Rained hard. Took [male symbol] muskrat, several Peromyscus and
set traps for voles in marsh in Pocahontas [Pocohontas]. Took [female symbol] lesser
scaup with broken wing.
June 26, 1930.
Fair, rain at night. Deer in summer coat. Took 3 musk-
rats, saw [female symbol] American merganser in Talbot Lake and green-wing
teal.
June 27, 1930.
Rain day and night. Greater scaups and Widgeon in
Talbot Lake. Saw yellow warblers there also. Took pair
of voles in marsh at Pohohontas [Pocohontas]. Found dead yearling mule
deer, it had fallen into a small pot hole and got its back
legs snagged between two branches. Nest of eastern white-
crowned sparrow.
June 28, 1930.
Fine. Shot adult and young horned owl. Saw elk and
porky. Latter was eating briar leaves. Took savannah
sparrow (yellow eyebrow). Found old coyote den under large
fir, bones of rabbit, squirrel, ground squirrel, muskrat
and birds.
June 29, 1930.
Fine all day. Took [female symbol] and [male symbol] Callospermophilus [underlined] and
juv. [juvenile] Pack rat. Mr. Adams reports seeing a mink on Maligne
Creek on the evening of June 28. He states that this is the
first he has seen in the park in many years. Saw clay-
coloured sparrow, Say's phoebe and Arkansas kingbird. In
evening took 2 more young Neotoma. Chipmunks very rare
around Jasper House. Heard one and saw another but neither
were taken..
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