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THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST. 



THE BLACK SQUIRREL. 

 A black squirrel, in excellent condition, 

 was shot on the farm of J. A. Simpson, Esq., 

 Coteau, on the 13th January. It is said that 

 this animal has not been seen in the neighbor- 

 hood of the Coteau for years past. Another 

 specimen, the gray variety, was shot on the 6th 

 concession, Roxton Falls, on the 10th of Janu- 

 ary, by J. I. Newport, Esq., of this city, 

 Although it leaves its hiding place on fine winter 

 days in Western Canada, it is not fond of cold, 

 and it seems strange that it should be abroad 

 when the thermometer was so low. 



PROPER NAMES. 



'" Capture. — M. Fraser a attrape hier une 

 magnifique poule de prairies, sur la cote du 

 Beaver Hall. II est tres rare de voir cet oiseau 

 au Canada a cette saison de l'annee. II dis- 

 parait generalement vers le 20 novembre." 



The above is from Le Nouveau Monde. The 

 bird referred to is the Woodcock, the capture 

 of which we noticed to in our January number. 

 The Prairie Hen (Oupidonia Cupido) is a 

 Grouse, and does not occur in this Province. 



PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 

 Game in Season — February. 

 Ruffled and Spruce Grouse; Ptarmigan; 

 Wild Geese and Wild Ducks. 



Fish in Skason — February. 

 Whitefish, Salmon, Trout, Lake Trou.t, 

 Brook Trout, Bass, Dore, Maskilonge. 



CANADIAN FISHERY LEASES. 

 A numerously signed petition by the inhabi- 

 tants residing on the banks of (lie Rivers Res- 

 tigouche and Metapedia has been presented to 

 the Minister of Fisheries through Mr Beau- 

 chesne, M.P. for Bonaventure. The petition 

 sets forth that at Confederation, the Federal 

 Government assumed the right of leasing. the 

 inland rivers lor angling. This assumption on 

 the part of the Government, carrying with it 

 many hardships to be borne by the settlers, 



has been declared by the Courts of Justice to 

 be illegal ; the inhabitants therefore petition 

 the Government not to renew the leases which 

 have expired with 1880, nor to issue new ones. 

 They point out that they have waited patiently 

 for justice at the hands of the Department of 

 Fisheries : at the same time they insist on their 

 legal rights and refuse o acknowledge (as the 

 law is at present) the leases granted by the 

 Federal Government. 



BUCKLAND'S MUSEUM. 

 The late Mr. Francis T. Buckland, Editor of 

 Land and Water, lias bequeathed his valuable 

 Museum of Economic Fish Culture to England, 

 and on the decease of Mrs. Buckland, a sum of 

 =£5,000 will revert to the nation to be applied 

 for the purpose of founding a Professorship of 

 Economic Pisiculture in connection with the 

 Buckland Museum, and the Science and Art 

 Department at South Kensington, London. 



FISH AND GAME PROTECTION CLUB 

 FOR THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



This Club held their annual meeting on 

 Saturday, January 15, R. H. Kilby, Esq., 

 President. 



The following report was read by the Acting 

 Secretary, J. H. Mathews, Esq. : 



In March and April several seizures of game 

 were made and the offenders fined ; the large 

 quantity of game thus confiscated (over a ton. 

 weight) was distributed among the charitable 

 institutions of the city. Seizures were also 

 made from three other parties. Through infor- 

 mation given by the Club a great number of 

 nets were confiscated during the past summer, 

 principally round Vaudreuil, where no less 

 than 17 were captured. During the last session 

 of the Quebec Parliament, your Committee, in 

 co-operation with the Sherbrooke Club, made 

 a vigorous attempt to have the present Game 

 Law so amended as to do away with the spring 

 shooting of ducks and other wild fowl which 

 conoe to breed on our rivers and lakes, and a 

 committee was named, consisting of Judge 

 Coursol, M.P., E. Monk and R. Stephens, to 

 proceed to Quebec to watch our interests. Un- 

 fortunately, the amendment was not. brought 

 up until the last day of the session, when most 



