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each side to two thousand feet and more, and then it ascended 

 into Bcdmaii's Flats, on the plateau above. 



This was a grassy undulating piece of country, with many 

 fine little dells and rills of water in it, and was well stocked 

 with Redwing Partridge, whose covies afforded capital sport 

 on more than one occasion. 



DuvaVs Kloof. — This trip was made into a still wilder part 

 of the district, and it lay at the east end of Smith's Valley, 

 through which runs a spruit of the Koonap Eiver, and which 

 is bounded on the south by the Kabergen, and on the north 

 by the Eeed Mats mountains. 



Finally, the summit of the Kabergen chain was reached 

 after a heavy ascent of 2500 feet, and a rugged plateau 

 appeared to view, diversified by scrubby bush, grass, and 

 stony peaks and koppies. 



Here some good covies of Greywing Partridge were found, 

 which, however, were with difficulty hunted or bagged, owing 

 to the natural fastnesses they had selected, which stood them 

 in as good stead as the Alps were to the Swiss mountaineers. 



Shooting Seasons. — As the seasons are reversed in the 

 southern hemisphere to what they are in Britain, so is the 

 shooting season altered to the winter months of April, May, 

 and June, when the birds are full grown and strong in covey. 



The Breeding Season commences in August, when the birds 

 begin to pair off and scatter, and the shooting to completely 

 terminate everywhere ; but the gartie licence, of value 7s. 6d., 

 only sanctions shooting from December 1 to June 30 of the 

 following year. 



XII. — Bird-life in the City of Edinburgh and its Vicinity dur- 

 ing the Frosts of December and January 1874-75. By 

 Egbert Gray, Esq., F.E.S.E. 



The author of this paper stated that he had been accus- 

 tomed for a long series of years to make almost daily observa- 

 tions on bird-life, and that since coming to reside in Edinburgh 

 he had been much interested in the movements of many of 

 the birds he had found living within and without its bound- 

 aries. Some of the species, indeed, had revealed facts of more 



