TABLE 2-1. The forest mammals and forest 'game’ birds recorded on Prince Edward Island in documents of the British colonial period and beyond. The names of the recorders are listed below the table; see the main text for the identification of the species. (E = extirpated — i.e. reported as either no longer occurring on the island, or the evidence is for the past occurrence only; A = the species is reported as absent from the island.) The final column is a tally of all records for each species including mentions additional to those in the lists (for those animals in the table marked with an asterisque * see the footnotes).

RECORDERS (and date of writing or publication)

SPEC'ES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1o 11 1213114 15 16 17 ET“; 1765 1770177417931796180318051822182818391851186118611876187618781890

MAMMALS I IIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIII

A

TOTAL TALLY

_. _| .1 _| _. _. N —' -‘ (A) N --‘ N

’Shrew’ §

:1: H

’Hare’ or ’rabbit’

’Squirrels’ i1 * Red squirrel Flying squirrel

Chipmunk

O ‘7

Beaver * ’The plague mouse’ * Other mice and voles

Muskrat *

Wolf Fox *

Bear *

Marten *

IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIII II

I

Weasel or ermine Mink *

Otter *

IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIII

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ToTALMAMMALs nunnnn-II-I-Imnnm

or nun-unnnnunnnnnln-I Dve’ or ’pigeon IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

The recorders: 1 - Holland (1765: October); 2 - Patterson (1770); 3 — Patterson (1774); 4 - Shuttleworth (1793); 5 — [Cambridge] (1796?); 6 — Walsh (1803); 7 - Stewart (1806); 8 - Johnstone (1822); 9 — MacGregor (1828); 10 - Hill (1839); 11 — Lawson (1851); 12 - Bagster (1861); 13 - Sutherland (1861); 14 - Rowan (1876); 15 - Questionnaire (1876); 16 - Lawson (1877-1878); 17 - Bain (1890).

Lynx or ’wild cat

Caribou

fl

Deer I

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