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MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 207
the sale amounted to 131,170 skins. I think the best since the
transfer of the country to Canada was in 1870. The total
for each of the eight years last mentioned was 81,706, 52,308,
55,453, 60,455, 66,841, 66,750, 83,43.9, and 81,174, respectively.
The aggregate total sales of martens for the twenty-five
years amounted to no less than 2,590,691 skins. In
1902, the Company sold 56,491, and in 1903, 76,629 marten
skins in London.
The two best and most successful months for the trapping
of this valuable animal are November and March, while
comparatively few are taken during December, January,
February, and April. Severely cold weather is not a favourable
factor in hunting, for the reason that at such times
martens do not roam as much as on other occasions. The
sexes begin to copulate in February, and the process is
continued to the end of March, according to situation or other
circumstances. For some time afterwards, martens are more
easily captured than at almost any other period of the season.
The young are blind and helpless when born, but shortly
acquire sight and strength. They make their nests in hollow
trees, or under fallen timber, and in holes in the ground.
Comparatively few skins were obtained from the country
north of Fort Anderson, but in the forest region to the south
martens were fairly abundant in some years. The writer
has seen several albino examples, and also a considerable
number of bright yellow and dark orange colored martens in
his time, particularly while stationed in the districts of
Mackenzie River and Athabasca. In the month of February,
1890, Albert Flett, then chief of the Cumberland House band
of Cree Indians, brought me a large male marten somewhat
different from any that I had previously met with or specially
noticed. After it was properly skinned and prepared, it Was
forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington.
I think the chief told me that he had trapped it in the Pas
Mountain, some 60 or 70 miles to the southward of Cumberland
House. He also informed me that he had seen several
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| OCR | MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 207 the sale amounted to 131,170 skins. I think the best since the transfer of the country to Canada was in 1870. The total for each of the eight years last mentioned was 81,706, 52,308, 55,453, 60,455, 66,841, 66,750, 83,43.9, and 81,174, respectively. The aggregate total sales of martens for the twenty-five years amounted to no less than 2,590,691 skins. In 1902, the Company sold 56,491, and in 1903, 76,629 marten skins in London. The two best and most successful months for the trapping of this valuable animal are November and March, while comparatively few are taken during December, January, February, and April. Severely cold weather is not a favourable factor in hunting, for the reason that at such times martens do not roam as much as on other occasions. The sexes begin to copulate in February, and the process is continued to the end of March, according to situation or other circumstances. For some time afterwards, martens are more easily captured than at almost any other period of the season. The young are blind and helpless when born, but shortly acquire sight and strength. They make their nests in hollow trees, or under fallen timber, and in holes in the ground. Comparatively few skins were obtained from the country north of Fort Anderson, but in the forest region to the south martens were fairly abundant in some years. The writer has seen several albino examples, and also a considerable number of bright yellow and dark orange colored martens in his time, particularly while stationed in the districts of Mackenzie River and Athabasca. In the month of February, 1890, Albert Flett, then chief of the Cumberland House band of Cree Indians, brought me a large male marten somewhat different from any that I had previously met with or specially noticed. After it was properly skinned and prepared, it Was forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. I think the chief told me that he had trapped it in the Pas Mountain, some 60 or 70 miles to the southward of Cumberland House. He also informed me that he had seen several 14 |
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