PREFACE. 
Many interesting and useful works have been 
already published relating to the Colonies of 
Vancouver Island and British Columbia, which, 
however, contain little if any information on 
the subject of their Natural History. 
This missing link I venture in some measure 
to supply. But ‘The Naturalist in Vancouver 
Island and British Columbia’ is not intended to 
be a book on Natural History merely; neither 
does the Author desire to weary his reader with 
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 rough though 
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