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July 26/36 [1936] Ootsa.
Took a [male symbol] Mustela rixosa -
a new provincial record.
Rain + high wind.
July 27/36. [1936] 1 Peromyscus, 1 [female symbol] Sorex cinereus
+ 1 squirrel.
Squirrels confined to spruce
groves. Very few in pine + none
in aspen.
July 28/36. [1936] Still raining.
[male symbol] Sorex cinereus, [male symbol] Peromyscus,
mice very scarce this year.
After breakfast took a run up
to Shelfords about 6 mi [miles] west of
Wistaria on the Nadina road.
John Shelford tells me he found
a least weasel dead in the meadow
+ trapped another last winter. Sent
both to R.M.A. [Anderson] Has taken Neosorex
in his muskrat traps.
Examined burrows of marmota
monax
Reports a few M. [Marmota] caligata on
the hills.
He had specimens of Green-winged
Teal, Pintail, Mallard, Bufflehead, Widgeon [wigeon],
Pied-billed Grebe, Hawk Owl, Golden
Eagle, Red throated loon (breeding plumage).
Pacific Loon ad [adult] taken in fall.
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