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244 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
H U D S O N B A Y LEMMING— D i c r o s t o n y x richardsoni
Merriam.
This species is decidedly more abundant than Lemmus
trimucronatus in Arctic America. A considerable number
of skins was collected in various conditions of pelage from
midsummer to midwinter, not only in tbe vicinity of Fort
Anderson, but also from the lower Anderson River, the
Barren Grounds, and on the coast shores of Liverpool and
Franklin bays. Two females secured in the " Barrens"
on June 26, 1865, each contained five embryos, while a few
days later ( June 30) a dead male example, perfectly white,
was discovered in the nest of a golden eagle, 2 or 3 miles to
the west of our usual summer crossing of the Wilmot Horton
River.
M U S K E A T OE M U S Q U A S H — F i b e r zibethicus hudsonius
Preble.
Like most of the important fur- bearing animals, the
musquash greatly fluctuates in number. We have usually
several seasons in succession when they are very abundant,
followed by quite as many when they are comparatively
scarce, and then between these periodic fluctuations we have
a year or two when the returns are either above or below
the average trade, as will now be demonstrated. From 1853
to 1877, the Company sold in London 10,600,056 musquash,
or an average of about 424,000 skins a year. Outfits 1853
and 1854 exceeded this result. They yielded, respectively,
493,952 and 512,291; but the following nine sales ( 1855 to
1863) were all below the average, and ranged between the
period minimum ( 177,291 skins) in 1860 and 357,060 in
1863. There was a material increase in 1864 ( 509,769
skins), then three years of decline ( 418,370, 320,824, and
412,164 skins). However, 1868 gave as many as 618,081
skins, after which the two succeeding seasons fell below the
average ( 404,173 and 232,251 skins), and the statement of
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| OCR | 244 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN H U D S O N B A Y LEMMING— D i c r o s t o n y x richardsoni Merriam. This species is decidedly more abundant than Lemmus trimucronatus in Arctic America. A considerable number of skins was collected in various conditions of pelage from midsummer to midwinter, not only in tbe vicinity of Fort Anderson, but also from the lower Anderson River, the Barren Grounds, and on the coast shores of Liverpool and Franklin bays. Two females secured in the " Barrens" on June 26, 1865, each contained five embryos, while a few days later ( June 30) a dead male example, perfectly white, was discovered in the nest of a golden eagle, 2 or 3 miles to the west of our usual summer crossing of the Wilmot Horton River. M U S K E A T OE M U S Q U A S H — F i b e r zibethicus hudsonius Preble. Like most of the important fur- bearing animals, the musquash greatly fluctuates in number. We have usually several seasons in succession when they are very abundant, followed by quite as many when they are comparatively scarce, and then between these periodic fluctuations we have a year or two when the returns are either above or below the average trade, as will now be demonstrated. From 1853 to 1877, the Company sold in London 10,600,056 musquash, or an average of about 424,000 skins a year. Outfits 1853 and 1854 exceeded this result. They yielded, respectively, 493,952 and 512,291; but the following nine sales ( 1855 to 1863) were all below the average, and ranged between the period minimum ( 177,291 skins) in 1860 and 357,060 in 1863. There was a material increase in 1864 ( 509,769 skins), then three years of decline ( 418,370, 320,824, and 412,164 skins). However, 1868 gave as many as 618,081 skins, after which the two succeeding seasons fell below the average ( 404,173 and 232,251 skins), and the statement of |
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