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dry yellow or reddish-yellow sandy flats, stretching away on each 

 side towards low or high mountain -ranges. Most of these have a, 

 yellowish appearance, the low stony rises oi' kopjes looking f'oi' all 

 the world like huge heaps of gravel. 



*' Water is very scarce and is found in natural spiings, either 

 surface or by sinking ; fi-equently the water-holes are considei'able 

 distances apai't, and in the back countiy are almost impossiljle to 

 find without a guide. 



" The i-ainfall during my stay at Klipfontein was considered to 

 have been the best for some years, being as follows ; — 



April 0-13 in. 



May ■1-41 „ 



June 0"96 ,, 



A little fell in July and (at Port NoUoth during my short stay 

 there) in August. 



" Klipfontein, at an altitude of 3104 feet, is a wayside station on 

 the railway between Port Nolloth and O'okiep, 54 miles by rail 

 from the former place, situated on the top of the mountain-ranges 

 which I'un betAveen the Orange Rivei' a,nd the Kamiesbei'g. 



" The country is a series of mountains and small Hats cut 

 through with old watei'-coui'ses, which either run down to the 

 small flats on the top of the mountain-range or the lower flats 

 running towards the coast. Often they form huge kloofs or 

 canons, some hundreds of feet in depth and 200 or 300 yards 

 across, with enormous krantzes towering above and around the 

 outer edges. 



" The principal vegetation consists of several species of milk- 

 bush and a small green bush some 2 or 3 feet in height, on which 

 the wild buck and domestic stock feed ; the several species of 

 Avater- and rice-plants, a few scattered bushes and small trees on 

 the kloofs and mountains, thorns in some of the river-beds, and 

 the cui'ious cookrerboom complete my rough list. 



" Within a feAv miles of Klipfontein, on both the high and Ioav 

 ground, traps Avere set in eA^ery conceiA-^able place, such as under 

 bushes or rocks on the open flats, in the dry riA^er-beds and kloofs. 

 The most productive ground, hoAvevei', Avas the dry liver-beds, 

 the rocky slopes and ki'antzes of the larger mountains, and the 

 small stony kopjes on the flats." 



1. RiiiNOLOPiius .ETHioPS Peters. 



6 . 436 a. $ . 420. Klipfontein. 



2. Nycteris capexsis Smith. 



5 . 459. Anenous. 

 $.429,421. Klipfontein. 



3. MiKIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSI Natt. 



J. 451. Klipfontein. 



