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(lent which, perha})3, happily for the oftencler, I iliJ not witness. The 

 occurrence was annoying, and the lo3s to nie considerable. Pocahontas 

 was an accomplished capturer of fish ; so much so, that had she lived 

 to become two years old, my rod and line might liave been entirely dis- 

 pensed with, and the ichthyological branch of sport left altogether to 

 her. After having taken and devoured about thirty cray-hsh, on the 

 day pi-eceding that on which she was assassinated, she caught in the 

 evening three fine pickerel to the surprise an.l admiration of a crowd of 

 spectators. 



At two months old Pocahontas commenced her piscatorial studies 

 by catching minnows in a large tin dish — then went through a course 

 of cray-fish — then advanced to rock-bass and chub, ascended then to 

 pike and suckers, and finally went through the higher branches of a 

 finished education by graduating with distingiiished honors in the 

 epicurean curriculum of black bass and pickerel. I had taken great 

 pains and trouble to develop her natural instincts ; and had she not met 

 with such a tragic end, I feel certain that her future performances 

 under water would have proved marvellous. 



I am done. If I have been able to interest my audience. If I 

 have advanced a single theory, or related a single fact hitherto un- 

 known, or unpublished, in relation to the Canadian otter, I shall feel 

 happy to think that my connection with the Field Naturali.^ts' Club of 

 the City of Ottawa, means something more useful and something better 

 than one of a mere honorarv character. 



Mr. \V. L. Scott wished to call attention to a valuable series of 

 otter skins kindly loaned by M\: Devlin for inspection, and including 

 raw, dressed and plucked Canadian otter, as well as a beautiful ex- 

 ample of the sea otter {Enhydra lutris) for comparison with them. Mr. 

 Devlin had informed him that the most of. his skins came from the 

 Upper Gatineau and Lievres, about 100 miles north of Ottawa, and 

 that they were only equalled by those from the northern parts of 

 British Columbia. Skins from jManitoba and the North- West were 

 larger, but coarser and less valuable. Those from the upper Ottawa 

 were not so dark or rich in color as those from the upper Gatineau, 

 while those obtained south of us were light and poor and only worth 

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