'NIK CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATUBALI8T. 





mething ought tobedom to prevent men, 

 even well-informed authors, from lam] 

 with <>(lici- peoples' property on subjects to 

 which they have no just claim. It i~ different 

 when ;i scientist devotes a life's Study to a well- 

 defined class containing numerous gen ra and 

 forms. He certainly has the prrfili _ 

 transferring his own species from one group or 



malm, an ei 

 logist, whil 

 by Bona] 



bod. It i- th( retort cl< ai 

 for v 1 1 i — owl mac 



the American ami high latitude form* 

 permanent, and the European are 



iphical variety. But whj 



genera to another, as he finds the analogous of the three names for this . 

 forme agreeing. To go back to Buhner's well-represented in Am. 



time, and adopt his nomenclature in tin- ad* 

 ranced century of human knowledge i- not 

 what we expected from Mr. Scudder's pen 

 The idea is absurd ami will be far from acting 



in harmony with the nomenclature el insects 

 as understood at the present day. We do not 

 want even to go back to FabriciuS for priority 



in matters of this kind, but the latter is pre- 



menclature can be accomplished until tl 

 understood, and the sooner it is don< th< 







NOVA SCOTIA GAME LAW-. 



LORD DCNRAYE.V'S CA85. 



Of all countries in this world, the Dominion 

 tit Canada is the most famous 



lerable to Hubner. His generic names are Game Laws. The Provinces of Ontarii . 

 ridiculous and unpronounceable, and the bee. New Brunswick and N» S have 



Change is not necessary. 



In Ornithology, we notice that the same 

 generic name changes are yearly taking place, 

 both in Europe and America. We are sorry 

 for this, as it was thought that in America the 

 generic names emanating from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution established at Washington 

 for the diffusion o\' knowledge among mankind, 

 were sufficient, perfect and authentic. We 

 can point out many instances where a tew 

 busy bodies (and can name them) have been 

 breaking up the standard generic names of 

 our birds. For instance the Sparrow Owl 



game laws, not one ol which harmonizes with 

 the other more especially regarding quadru- 

 peds named in the Act. Considering that the 

 geographical range of deer is. almost nmilar 

 in these Provinces, it seems ridiculous that the 

 law affecting them should be different within 

 their places of occurrence. Again, it is under- 

 stood that any person inclined to hunt deer 

 during the open season ha- a perfect right to 

 do so without let or hindrance. This, how- 

 ever, it appears is not the case in Nova S 

 where we notice that Lord Dunraven was fined 

 for shooting deer, commonly called M 

 although be bad a license to hunt the latter 



(Nyciale Richardsonii, Bonaparte,) called in 



England. (Strix Tengmalmi, Bewick,) and in animal in the district in which he pro 



1 1 eland. Mr. Percy Evans Frekc calls the same tho authority so do so. In a letter which his 



bird (Nyclala Tengmalmi, var. Richardsonii, Lordship published in Forest and - 



Gmelin.) Here we see three generic appliea 



tions given to the same species, and alter all 

 it is nothing more than the same bird, like 

 many other forms of American avi-fanna 

 occurring on both continents. In The Xcir 

 Newcastle Weekly Chronicle o\' November .">, 

 1881, Mr. 11. Kerr; ot Baeup. Lancashire, says 

 that the above owl was named by Gmelin as a 

 compliment to the original discoverer Dr. 



'• A man might pursue a moose and wound 

 it in one district and be compelled to follow it 

 into another to kill it. The proper course, 1 

 presume, for him to adopt on arriving at the 

 county line would be to go back to camp, pack 

 up his traps, and go out to the settlements. 

 which might take a couple of d - - He 

 should then proceed to the resilience of the 

 Clerk of the Peace, which would take a day, 

 and having got his endorsement on the li< 



