THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST. 



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voices chime in as though rejoicing al the 

 sight of the li'iuiil element. Such is their 

 ecstasy as they wheel around over their 

 favorite bar, and such their utter disregard 

 to the booming of ,2:111s, that dozens are 

 dropped upon the water, the wounded flutter- 

 ing in every direction, while the column 

 wheels into line again right over the epol 

 where its dead and wounded companions lie, 

 only to !»' thinned again and again, until 

 finally driven away. Ordinary precautions 

 seem forgotten or abandoned by these birds 

 when approaching a favorite watering place ; 

 and when met with under such circumstances 

 it is conclusive evidence that they have not 

 been long from the breeding grounds, and 

 that most of them are young and inexperi- 

 enced. 



fcottesponftence, 



ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

 R. McK., Newcastle, N.B. — If you possess 

 "Packard's Guide to the Study of Insects," 

 you have the best work for a student of 

 American Insects. " Harris' Insects injurious 

 to Vegetation" is an accurate work, but we 

 have no book published in the United States 

 or Canada specially devoted to one order of 

 insects. There are seven distinct orders of 

 insects, all of which are largely represented in 

 America, and it will require many more years 

 of collecting and careful investigation before 

 we can obtain separate works on the orders 

 of American insects. You do not inform us 

 what order you study. Let us know, and we 

 may lead you to obtain information. In 

 regard to English names for our insects, we 

 question if they can be applied even to the 

 butterflies of this continent. The extent of 

 territory is so great and the species so diversi- 

 fied that Mr. Soudder of Boston, an eminent 

 entomologist who attempted it is now ridiculed 

 for so doing. Latin names are certainly pre- 

 ferable and more simple, especially for classi- 

 fication, and a child can learn and retain them 

 almost as easily as a dressmaker remembers 

 the names of the parapharnalia of her business. 



Sib, — In the last issue of The Canadian Sports m \n 

 and Naturalist, a copy of which is before me, 1 notice 

 the following article under the signature of "C.": — 

 " The Sherbrooke Examiner of the 14th ultimo, made a 

 " charge against Mr. W. 0. "Willis, Fishery Overseer, for 

 " granting' permits to take salmon from the tributaries 

 "of the St. Francis River with 'fly and minnow.' '' 1 

 beg to state that no such article as t lie above ever ap- 

 peared in the Examiner or any other paper, consequent]; 

 there is no truth in it ; it is purely a stretch of the imagi* 



nation "I the writ, r \ . 

 ha all. •.••■- thai W V W 



■ one in He 1 1 i ... r i mi hi • 



■ salmon in Up.' (u 



" ih.n.il Information :.- to tin 

 " wiil be propei Ij 

 one else, never cont< mplatcd 

 there can be nothin 

 ini.ii - great wan! • •! . andoi •■. 

 best known t.. the writer. \S . i 



■Sherbrooke, 2nd < Ictober 



Note.— Since the inception of Tun < 

 man Sportsman and Naturalist, art 

 hearing the signature " C" have been written 

 by the Editor. The lirst remarks coming under 

 our notice relative to granting perm 

 salmon on the St. Francis riser appeared in 

 the Star, who quoted the Sherbrooke Ezat 

 Subsequent seemingly corroborative staten 

 were published in the Star, under the signa- 

 ture ''One who ha- caught salmon with a 

 rod." This was followed by a letter from " W. 

 C. W.," an extract from which ie given in last 

 month's issue ot' this journal, wherein be 

 that " the Fisheries Department, as a great 

 favour, granted fifteen day- to catch a 

 salmon by the only means they can be taken 

 in that river." There is no stretch ot in 

 nation or anything mixed in the mailer on 

 our side of the fence, but the corres| 

 indicates something wrong. May we a.-k if 

 " W. C. W." wrote that letter to the Star, where 

 it is stated that " the most fascinating fly has 

 been thrown across them, but all in vain, not 

 a rise can be got, though the burnished • 

 of the tempting beauties are plainly visible 

 beneath the current." How can •• W. C. W." 

 harmonize the statement of a fifteen day-' grant 

 to catch salmon in the St. Francis, with the 

 last paragraph ot his above letter? Does he 

 wish to take the Editor of this journal by the 

 nose? In regard to " W. C. W." taking the 

 Star's sport by the nose, literal phrasi - 

 generally used metaphorically, therefore the 

 ontology has no existence unless " W. C. W." 

 wrote that letter. — C. 



C L E P T E R A F U N T P IN T II E 

 PKOVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



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Oxtiioimi.uu's latebrosus, Strum. 

 Aphodius 1 Ibssor, J.iiin. 



'2 fimitarius, J.inn. 



3 ruricola, Mels. 



f granarius, Linn, 



5 inquinatus, BerbsU 



ii vittatus, Sen/. 



T foetidus, Fabr, 



