The Canadian Spohtsm^h. aud Naturalist. 



No. 12. 



MONTREAL, DECEMBER, 1882. 





WILLIAM COUPER, Editor. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



A beautiful young specimen of tbe rare Leas! 

 Auk (Ciceronia pusilla), was senl to Montreal 

 to be stuffed, li was mailed a short time ago 

 from Newcastle, N. B., by R. Mackenzie, Esq. 



A line young specimen of the Solan Goose 

 or Gannet (Sula b assana) w&a lately shot by 

 Mr. A. W. Barnes of this city, in the St. 

 Lawrence, near Contrecoeur. 



Last August, Baron de la Grange, of Paris, 

 accompanied by Mr. N. A. Comeau of God bout 

 P.Q., went on a hunting tour through Wyoming 

 and Montana. They had good sport, having 

 killed two grizzlies ; thirty-eight buffalo; fif- 

 teen wapiti ; seventeen black-tailed deer ; 

 eleven antelope; five mountain sheep and 

 some smaller quadrupeds. The Baron has 

 several wapiti and other deer heads and skins 

 as trophies. 



During this season, Mr. L. A. Boyer, of 

 Montreal, shot young Eider duck (Somaleria 

 mollissima,) near Summerstown, Out. It is 

 unusual to find these birds so far from the sea. 

 He has had a pair pieserved and stuffed. 

 Those birds may possibly be the young of S. 

 Dresseri, Sharpe, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1871, figs. 

 ] and 2. The true Eider has only lately been 

 detected in America, it being the form found by 

 Mr. Kumlien breeding abundantly on the west 

 side of Cumberland Gulf. 



AN ENGLISH WOODCOCK SHOT 

 AT CHAMBLY, QUEBEC. 



A specimen of the English Woodcock(£co/o- 

 pax rusticula,) was shot on the 11th ultimo, 

 by a French Canadian at Chambly, P. Q. 

 Colour, size and weight of the bird confused 

 the man, who carried the stranger to Mr. 

 Brock Willett, who knew what it was, but he 

 became incredulous — as we did when it was 

 brought to us in the flesh — that a fat twelve 

 ounce European Woodcock could be obtained 

 in Canada, in November; but its freshness 

 settled the doubt, and the bird is now stuffed, 



We believe this i- tbe fit -• 



far inland in Canada. The Otbi 



specimen occurring tar north on th<- 



i- one taken in Newfoundland in 



• '■.in-; in "The American Naturalist," X., 



No. <>, June, 1876, p. 372, recorde 



as having been shot in Virginia, 



DUCK FEEDING GtBOUNl 



"A deputation from tie: Fifth and G 

 Protection Club, consisting ■■:' M BSTS. I.. A. 

 Lover, Rintoul, Selkirk Cross, and \V. Parker, 

 waited on tbe Provincial Premier whili 

 Montreal last month, to request a !_ r rant of 

 $250 for the sowing of wild rice in the ditfer- 

 ent duck teeding grounds throughout the 

 province. The deputation wae litely 



received and their request granted by the Hon. 

 Premier. The grant is to be added to the 

 sum of $10(1, which the Club guarant- 

 raise from amongst its members. It may l>e 

 mentioned that this can hardly be called a tax 

 upon the province, as the law passed last 

 session compelling Btrangers to take 

 ing licenses lias already resulted in the netting 

 of a Considerable sum to the province, and 

 which will annually increase, a- the sp 

 grounds are protected and improved." 



Note. — If wild rice turns out productive in 

 this latitude, several of our lakes and ] 

 will doubtless have an annual tenfold inc] 

 of wildfowl, and the sportsmen of the Province 

 of Quebec will not hereafter complain of having 

 to leave their old hunting grounds in search 

 of game elsewhere. This aquatic plant was 

 sent broadcast into the Canadian waters 

 Lake Champlain about twelve months ago, and 

 we have been informed that it was coming up 

 last spring. The Fish and Game Club should 

 select good natural localities for the pro; 

 tion and extension of the seed. 



THE WINCHESTER CLUB. 



A club has just been organized for the pur- 

 chase of the hunting grounds in the county of 

 St. Maurice. Besides acquiring some of the 

 bush land about St. Elie, on which a sports- 



