320 Animal Life 
Photograph by Wall Bros., Melbourne. 
following fact is also very 
significant. Mr. David 
Hendry, to whom the 
sheep belonged, started 
from Wakool River in 
April, 1902, with 3,400 
sheep; in September, 
when within about eight 
miles of Melbourne, the 
number had diminished 
to 2,300; that is to say, 
in less than five months 
1,100 sheep had suc- 
cumbed to the effects of 
the drought; this is an 
average of over 200 
deaths per month, or 
nearly 80 per cent. per 
year. 
DROUGHT-STRICKEN SHEEP AT SOUTH ST. KILDA. 57> 
Mr. Grorce WA, of Melbourne, has 
sent us the two photographs 
which we reproduce on this 
page. They are not particu- 
larly pleasant-looking pictures, but they 
tell a tale, more eloquent than words, of 
what fearful privations have been endured 
since Australia became subjugated by King 
Drought nearly eight years ago. The 
Starving 
Sheep. 
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Photograph by Wall Bros., Melbourne. 
GRAZING ON THE BANKS OF ELLWOOD CANAL, ST. KILDA. 
THE frontispiece in this number, which is 
referred to in Mr. Lydekker’s 
Our Coloured article on the Coloration of 
Mammals, is from an original 
painting by Sir Harry Johnston. It is an 
excellent specimen of the sixteen which he 
has done to illustrate his volume on British 
Mammals in’ The Woburn Library. In 
addition to these coloured plates, there will 
be many reproductions 
from photographs taken 
specially for the work, 
and printed separately 
on art paper. We under- 
stand that the author, 
who is solely responsible 
for this volume, will deal 
briefly in the three first 
chapters with the extinct 
mammals of Great 
Britain, devoting the rest 
of the book to British 
mammals of to-day, 
beginning with the bats 
and insectivores, going 
on to the cats and 
other carnivora, the 
phocide and cetacea, the 
rodents, and finally deer 
and cattle. 
