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- few of the details of H.B.C. [Hudson's Bay Company] correspondence, mostly
originating from the Mackenzie River detachment.
I have made a few notes on mt [mountain] goat, whistler,
moose, severe starvation winters such as 1869,
1870-71 + 1889-90 - the latter mentioned as the
most severe winter experienced in that region.
Over + again it is mentioned that the moose
leather trade centred largely around Fort Nelson
+ Fort Liard with relatively few of the animals
around Simpson + Resolution.
Rae was the big centre for muskox hides
with about 100 recorded one year + 500 2 years
later. Good Hope also traded quite a few hides.
It is recorded that the muskox came from
the barrens as far away as Coppermine.
Migration [underlined]. There is no mentioned of wapiti anywhere.
Recalling Meinertzagen [Richard Meinertzhagen]'s talk to the S.O.C. [Scottish Ornithologists' Club]
it was largely poppycock but a few ideas
seem noteworthy. The aspects of migration that
he introduced with good examples were
1. The aggregation of solitary species to move as
flocks. Wheatears (unisexual flocks), black stork,
marsh harriers. How does this aggregation occur.
2. Vagrants are single birds, flocks don't
seem to get lost.
3. "Trapping" of single individuals of one species
in flocks of another. This should be confined to
gregarious migrants.
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