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research. Birds have been collected, but as the district presents 

 every variety of altitude and climate, high, low, and middle veld, 

 bush veld, forest, mountains bare and wooded, and heavily timbered 

 kloofs, and is traversed by several large rivers, I doubt if any really 

 representative collection has been made. I doubt if a better field 

 for the ornithologist can be found in the Transvaal. I had hoped 

 to study the ornithology of my district, but had neither time nor 

 opportunity to do so during my two years of residence, but saw 

 enough to convince me that a year's observation and attention to 

 the birds would yield a great deal of new information, and probably 

 not a few new species and varieties. I shall be happy to give any 

 information in my power to assist any naturalist who has any idea 

 of going there, and could give the names of residents who would be 

 likely to supply useful information. 



As a practical suggestion, may I remark that I believe no small 

 good might be done by the circulation of our journal among the 

 branches of the Transvaal Game Protection Society, the resident 

 magistrates, the editors of local newspapers, and the members of 

 the new Legislature ? 



