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- Field Notes
By Ian McTaggart-Cowan in Newgate area, east Kootenay District,
British Columbia, and in Jasper and Banff National Parks, Alberta,
May 1-Sept. [September] 14, 1930.
Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia], May 1, 1930.
Ground Squirrels and squirrels common everywhere. Pocket
gophers scarce though they have been very common. Took 5 on
flat on west side of river - north of the road. Chipmunks on
the west side small and very grey. [affinis] [editorial insertion by author]. Those on east side larger and
redder [lutiventris] [editorial insertion by author] Squirrels peculiar, not enough black on tail for
"richardsoni" [underlined]. A lot of old badger work on hills on west side.
Took 2, M. [Microtus] mordax [underlined] and 1 M. [Microtus] canescens [?] [editorial insertion by author] [underlined], one shrew and one
peromyscus just below dam for irrigation water in Meadow Creek.
May 2, 1930. Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took a pair of Alaska Three-toed Woodpeckers on
plateau east. Shot a rabbit on piece of land between two
bridges, (nursing [female symbol]).
May 3, 1930. Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Two pocket gophers, a very small one, light underneath
yellow on back, tail grey on east side of Kootenay. A large
dark on, tail grey 1/3, white 2/3 on west side of Kootenay.
A female taken on west side, had uterus much swollen.
May 4, 1930. Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Went to Tamarak [tamarack] swamp on plains east. Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing set out
line of flying squirrel traps. I took female red squirrel, 6
foeti.
May 5, 1930. Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Went west to Tamarak [tamarack] on hills, found a badger hole under an
old shack. Set traps for flying squirrels. Ground squirrels
and chipmunks very common in buckbrush plains. Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took
a large [female symbol] flying squirrel in his traps -I think it is "latipes"
as it is very large and dark, 351, 143-46. Mink and deer common
in bottom land on islands in Kootenay.
[Determined by A.H. [Arthur Holmes] Howell in 1931
as fuliginosus][editorial insertion by author]
May 6, 1930 Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Saw first Lewis Woodpecker. Mr. Sadler shot large male
badger and gave it to me - 30 lbs. [pounds] [T.t. [Taxidea taxus] neglecta] [editorial insertion by author] No badger east of Kootenay.
Marginalia: NOTES TRANSFERRED TO RBCM [Royal British Columbia Museum] FILES
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