the database does not contain any meteors of this stream. Because of the little information there is about the stream, we tried to select candidates from the high quality subset of orbits. The subset was selected using the iteration method [@por94] with respect to the IAU MDC catalogue shower parameters. Only 6 meteors fulfilled our criteria (Table 4). Meteors were detected during the activity of both MON and NOO. The D-criterion of meteors was on average greater than 0.3 with respect to the assumed parent comet. It is even doubtful if the December Canis Minorids is a regular shower or if it is only an occasional shower observed when the Earth crosses a narrow filament of the meteoroid particles, or these meteors are just scattered meteors of the MON-NOO complex; or that even these meteors belong to the sporadic background.

Orbital evolution of the comet and meteoroids
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The first orbital evolution analysis of the comet C/1917 F1 Mellish 800yr to the past [@car84] revealed that its orbit evolves slowly: notably, the nodes evolve very slowly. The inclined orbit avoids giant planet encounters and there is only a little chance of substantial gravitational interaction with the terrestrial planets near the 