Lester bowed himself out of the room and Bert accompanied him to the door. The first question the latter asked when he came back was:-- "Is there a beast or a bird in the world whose Latin name is canis-lupus?" Don threw himself back upon the sofa and laughed until the room rang again. "Is there a beast or a bird in the world whose English name is dog-wolf?" he asked, as soon as he could speak. "I did give Lester credit for a little common sense and a little knowledge, but I declare he possesses neither. It beats the world how he has got things mixed. Just listen to this," added Don, consulting his note-book. "He speaks of a pheasant and calls it _T. Scolopax_. Now _Scolopax_ is a snipe. He probably meant ruffed grouse, and should have called it _Tetrao Umbellus_. He speaks of a partridge when he means quail, or more properly Bob White, there being no quails on this side the Atlantic----" "Why do people call them quails then?" asked Bert. "The name was given to them by our forefathers, because they resembled the European quail. There is no pheasant in America either; but our grouse looked like one, and so they gave it that name, Lester calls a quail _Pious Imperialis_. Now that's an imperial woodpecker--that big black fellow with a red topknot that we sometimes see when we are hunting. He used to be called cock-of-the-woods, but the name was twisted around until it became woodcock, and some people believe that he is the gamey little bird we so much delight to shoot and eat. But they belong to different orders, one being a climber and the other a wader. Lester speaks of a rabbit, not knowing that there is no such thing as a wild rabbit in our country, and calls it _Ortyx Virgiana_, when he should have called it _Lepus Virginianus_, the name he uses being the one by which our quail is known to ornithologists. A deer, which he calls a dog-wolf, is _Cervus Virginianus_. O, he's a naturalist as well as a sportsman," shouted Don, as he laid back upon the sofa and laughed until his sides ached. "Then he didn't get one of the names right?" "Not a single one. After all, his ignorance on these points is not so astonishing, for everybody is liable to make mistakes; but that any boy living in this day and age should imagine that, by simply getting up a club and adopting a constitution, he could imprison or fine another boy because he didn't do just to suit him, is too ridiculous to be believed. That particular paragraph was probably copied after some old game law Lester read years ago; but he ought to know that before a sportsman's club, or any other organization, can have authority to prosecute persons for trapping birds and sending them away, there must first be a law passed prohibiting such trapping and sending away; and there's no such law in this state. It doesn't seem possible that he could have been in earnest."