FOOTNOTES TO TABLE 2-1 
     
    
   
   
    
     * The mammals and game birds below are mentioned by the following additional recorders: 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Hare: Anon. 1771; Curtis 1775; Chappell 1775-1818 (in 1776); [Clark] 1779; Anon. 1808; 
     
     Anon. 1818; [Hill] 1819; Anon. 1877; Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Squirrel: Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Beaver: Anon. (1808) states the price of beaver pelts on the island. 
     
    

    
     The ’plague mouse’: Anon. 1772; Lawson post 1777; Plessis 1812. 
     
    

    
     Muskrat: Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Fox: Curtis 1775; M’Robert 1776; Anon. 1808; Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Bear: Holland 1765 (March); Curtis 1775; Chappell 1775-1818 (in 1806); M’Robert 1776; [Ritter] 
     
    
   
   
    
     1780; Anon. 1808; Plessis 1812; Anon. 1818; House of Assembly 1773-1849 (1825); 
     
     Carrington 1837; Murray 1839; Census 1841; Bird 1856; Anon. 1877; Pollard 1898; Macphail 
     
    
   
   
    
     1939. 
     
    

    
     Marten: Holland 1765 (March); Chappell 1775-1818 (in 1778); Anon. 1808; MacLeod 1876 — see 
     
     footnote 67 for the reference. 
     
    

    
     Mink: Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Otter: Holland 1765 (March); M’Robert 1776; Anon. 1808; Bouchette 1832. 
     
    

    
     Lynx: Holland 1765 (March); House of Assembly 1773-1849 (1825); Bouchette 1832; Murray 1839; 
     
     Pollard 1898. 
     
    

    
     Partridge: Anon. 1771; Curtis 1775; [Clark] 1779; House of Assembly 1773-1849 (1780); Anon. 1808; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Anon. 1818; [Hill] 1819; Carrington 1837; Anon. 1877. ’Partridges’ were also said to "abound 
     
     in their seasons" on the island by the ”Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and 
     
     Literature for the Year 7768", p. 180, dated 30 July 1768, Halifax, Nova-Scotia (published 
     
     London). 
     
    

    
     ’Wild Pigeon’: Seymour 1840. Like the ’partridges’ (see above) ’pigeons’ were said to ”abound in their seasons" 
     
     on the island by the above listed ”Annual Register for the Year 7768". 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sutherland (1861) called the shrew, the ’shrew mouse, while Bain (1890) called it the ’shrew mole’. 
     
     Both [Cambridge] (1796?) and Walsh (1803) reported "several kinds of squirrel". 
     
     The absence of ‘deer’ on the island was also noted by Curtis (1775). 
     
    
   
   
    
     [Lawson] (1877-1878) and Bain (1890), based on seemingly second-hand information of unknown date, reported 
     
     wolves as transients on the island: what Bain said is that ”wolves have been known to cross the Northumberland 
     
     Strait on the ice and visit the Island”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Walsh’s (1803) ‘polecat' must be the mink. (Walsh would have known the polecat (Putorius purer/us) as a mink- 
     
     like animal that is native to Europe, including Great Britain.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Besides the species indicated in the above table, Sutherland (1861) also reported the absence from the island of 
     
     the raccoon, the porcupine and the wolverine, all of which he said occurred in the neighbouring provinces of Nova 
     
     Scotia and New Brunswick. Curiously, he also reported the presence of what he calls the ’hedgehog’ on the island. 
     
     It is evident from his description that he clearly had in mind the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) of Europe, which 
     
     has spines somewhat like a porcupine (see the main text for further comment). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bagster (1861) (p. 104) also mentions the ’sable’. He must be referring to the marten, as he had previously said 
     
     (p. 87) that the marten was "like a sable". The sable (Martes zibe/lina) is a Eurasian mustelid species similar to 
     
     the British pine marten. Elsewhere (p. 87), Bagster also called the mink, the "white-throated sable". 
     
    
   
   
    
     in his chapter on Prince Edward Island Rowan (1876) states: "I am inclined to think that beaver never lived on the 
     
     island" and in the same passage he implies that moose were also not native to the island. However, in a later 
     
     chapter titled 'The Trapper', he states that "the moose, the cariboo and the beaver are long since extinct" on the 
     
     island. (I note that like Bagster, he also uses the name 'sable' for the marten.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     The inclusion of the beaver for the Questionnaire (1876) is based on the response of just one of the eleven 
     
     respondents answering the question on the animals present in "your young days", (i.e. Peter Sinott) — the other 
     
     ten did not list it. Sinott also included ’ferrits’ in his list. It may be relevant that he was an immigrant from lreland 
     
     who had spent time in Newfoundland before coming to the island. 
     
    
   
   
    
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