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MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 205
tioned. In 1902 the Company sold 3,679, and in 1903
3,223 skins, making a grand total of 144,107 for the
twenty- seven years in question. Judging from the northern
department returns for outfit 1865 ( sold in London in 1S67)
I think that about two- fifths or more of the fishers appearing
in the Company's annual fur catalogue must have been
obtained from the western, southern, and Montreal departments
of the Hudson Bay service.
MARTEN-— M u s t c l a amcricana abieticola ( Preble).
This is probably the most constant of the '' periodic " fur-bearing
animals, whose presence in considerable numbers is
very largely dependent upon a greater abundance of hares or
rabbits, though mice also form an important item of marten
diet. The remarks made under Lynx in this regard have a similar,
but somewhat modified, application to this American
representative of the Russian sable. In years of plenty the
marten is very numerous throughout the entire northern forest
region: but it is not uniformly so at the same time in every
section of country all over the immense territories covered
by the Hudson's Bay Company's trading operations. When
it is abundant or scarce, say in the northern and western
departments, it will generally be found that there is an
important and corresponding increase or decrease in the
southern and Montreal departments. The natives maintain
that lynxes and martens migrate from the north and west
to the east and south, and that when they have attained their
height in numbers for several seasons the great bulk ( no
section is ever totally devoid of martens) of those who escape
capture resume the return march until the next period of
protracted migration. It must be admitted that many eld
fur traders have come to entertain similar views from their
own personal experience and observation. Of course there
are post, district, and departmental fluctuations in annual
results, caused by local epidemics among the hunters and
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| OCR | MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 205 tioned. In 1902 the Company sold 3,679, and in 1903 3,223 skins, making a grand total of 144,107 for the twenty- seven years in question. Judging from the northern department returns for outfit 1865 ( sold in London in 1S67) I think that about two- fifths or more of the fishers appearing in the Company's annual fur catalogue must have been obtained from the western, southern, and Montreal departments of the Hudson Bay service. MARTEN-— M u s t c l a amcricana abieticola ( Preble). This is probably the most constant of the '' periodic " fur-bearing animals, whose presence in considerable numbers is very largely dependent upon a greater abundance of hares or rabbits, though mice also form an important item of marten diet. The remarks made under Lynx in this regard have a similar, but somewhat modified, application to this American representative of the Russian sable. In years of plenty the marten is very numerous throughout the entire northern forest region: but it is not uniformly so at the same time in every section of country all over the immense territories covered by the Hudson's Bay Company's trading operations. When it is abundant or scarce, say in the northern and western departments, it will generally be found that there is an important and corresponding increase or decrease in the southern and Montreal departments. The natives maintain that lynxes and martens migrate from the north and west to the east and south, and that when they have attained their height in numbers for several seasons the great bulk ( no section is ever totally devoid of martens) of those who escape capture resume the return march until the next period of protracted migration. It must be admitted that many eld fur traders have come to entertain similar views from their own personal experience and observation. Of course there are post, district, and departmental fluctuations in annual results, caused by local epidemics among the hunters and |
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