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Title: The Canadian field-naturalist
Identifier: canadianfieldnat1927otta (find matches)
Year: 1927 (1920s)
Authors: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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126 The Canadian Field-Naturalist (Vol. XLI TRANSFERS OF ELK FOR RE-STOCKING By HO YES LLOYD TJRANSFERS of wild mammals are thought I to be worthy of note and so the details of certain elk transfers made by the Canadian National Parks Branch have been gathered from the records for the information of Naturalists. The elk of Yellowstone Park in the United States have been short of winter range from time to time in the past and when in 1916 the late Dr. "Charles Walcott advised the Department of the Interior, Canada, that he had discussed the ques- tion of transferring elk to Canada with the United States Department concerned and that there would be no difficulty in getting fifty or sixty animals, the Department of the Interior at once agreed to accept the offer. As an exchange for these elk from Yellowstone, Canada gave Rocky Mountain Goat and Sheep for the National Zoological Gardens at Washington, D.C. Elk from Yellowstone for Banff In October, 1916, there were 32 elk in cap- tivity at Banff, and apparently the species had completely or practically disappeared from the vicinity in the wild state. The records show that this Banff herd originated with four males and one female purchased by the late Mr. Valentine Winkler, then a member of the Manitoba Legislature, from Mrs. Ticknor of Morden, Manitoba. These were bought from Mr. Winkler and shipped to Banff in January, 1900. In March, 1902, one female was bought from Mr. S. R. Marlatt of Portage la Prairie and pre- sumably one female was bought from Mr. William Blanchard of Calgary in October, 1902. In April, 1910, six were shipped to Wainwright and four, two males and two females, were bought from Mr. Joshua Hill of Pontiac, Michigan, whose, herd was of Wyoming origin, and taken to Banff. On February 20, 1917, Superintendent S. J. Clarke and Mr. H. E. Sibbald of Banff Park left Gardiner, Montana, for Banff with 63 head of elk. These were yearlings and two-year-olds. On July 9, 1917, the elk census at Banff was as follows:—Original herd, 17 males, 14 females;
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Bugling Elk. Cut by courtesy Canadian National Parks.

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