PREFACE 



MANY interesting and u-rful \\-nrks have been 

 already published relating to the Colonies of 

 Vancouver Island and I'>riti>h Columbia, which, 

 howc-ver, contain little if any information on 

 tin- subject of their Natural History. 



This missing link I venture in some measure 

 to supply, lint 'The Naturalist in Vancouver 

 I.-land and British Columbia' is not intended to 

 be a book on Natural History merely; neither 

 does the Author desire to wearv his reader with 



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tedious descriptions of genera and species. Com- 

 parative anatomy and physiology can be acquired 

 at home, but habits are only discoverable by 

 those who devote themselves to the rouo-h. though 



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