adj>n Spohtsmah ap N/tuhalist. 



No. 12. 



MONTREAL, DECEMBER 15th, 1881. 



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TO OUR PATRONS. 

 This numbe* ends the first year of The 

 ( Ianadian Sportsman and Naturalist." 

 Last January we were sanguine, antici- 

 pating an increase of pages on the 

 appearance of the second volume. To 

 make it double its present size necessarily 

 incurs a larger outlay of hard cash, which, 

 we think, is not fully warranted at this 

 instant. We, therefore, prefer to keep 

 the magazine in its original form, adding, 

 however, a beautiful illustrated title-page, 

 which will appear with the first number 

 of the new year. We are therefore guard- 

 ed, as our prospects are thus far en- 

 couraging, many of our subscribers pre- 

 ferring to continue it at its current price 

 rather than risk failure by adding a few 

 additional pages and increasing the an- 

 nual subscription. We intend to go on 

 as formerly, keeping within the original 

 groove on which we started, i.e., advocat- 

 ing pure Sport and Natural History; allow- 

 ing nothing to appear in our columns 

 which will in the least disturb the 

 most fastidious. Correspondence will be 

 thoroughly sifted and made as brief as the 

 subject matter will allow, and we trust that 

 by energy and attention to improve as 

 we become older. 



We must here return onr thanks to 

 Professor James T. Bell, of Albert Uni- 

 versity, Belleville, Ont., and to James M. 

 LeMoine, Esq., Quebec, and many others 

 for their kind efforts in bringing the maga- 

 zine before the notice of their friends, and 

 advancing our interests. Cannot we ob- 

 tain a similar influence and support from 



gentlemen who reside near tl 

 sporting localities in the Dominion? We 

 are impressed that this will occur, and 

 ere the year 1882 passes away many new 

 names will be added to the list, whi< h is 

 already large considering that we are only 

 in our infancy. 



As the above remarks will probably 

 appear before our readers on the e\ 

 the annual festive season, and, it being 

 customary to greet friends on such 0< 

 sions, we sincerely wish all "A Merry 

 Christmas and a Happy New Year." 

 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



Gentlemen who are indebted to us for thi-< 

 year's issue, would confer a favour by sending 

 the amount on receipt of this number. 



OUR SECOND VOLUME. 



We will send the second volume to all 

 gentlemen who subscribed last year, trusting 

 that they will continue to take the publication. 

 Those who do not wish to do so, will favour 

 us by returning the number to 806 Craig 

 street, Montreal. 



CHANGING GENERIC NAMES. 

 It would be in order when the American 



Science Association meet next year in Mont- 

 real, that one of the members of the Zoological 

 Section takes up the important subject regard- 

 ing the useless alterations in names occurring 

 from year to year in the Department of Zo< 

 and Botany. It appears to us that then 

 School of Naturalists in the United States who 

 persevere in diffusing a system of confusion in 

 the nomenclature of Natural Science. We are 

 extremely sorry to see our talented friend 

 Scudder, of Boston, persistently sticking to 

 old Hubner's generic names for the butterflies 



