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to ascertain the mortality on tlie ocean voyage, the figures being 

 based in these cases on the number shipped. The mortality e7i route, 

 under the best care, may be safely placed at 20 to 25 per cent., and 

 is sometimes much greater. Thus, of 400 Hungarian Partridges 

 shipped from England in 1906, consigned to the Essex Park Game 

 Preserve in Virginia, only 50 reached their destination alive. While 

 this loss of 350 out of 400 in crossing the ocean and making the land 

 voyage from New York to Essex County, Va., is exceptionally great, 

 other instances might be cited where the percentage of loss was very 

 high, even after the experience derived from ten years of importation. 

 On the other hand, an occasional consignment will come through very 

 well. Thus in a recent shipment of 300 birds from Bohemia to 

 Windsor Locks, Conn., only 5 died." — Heney Oldys ' Yearbook of 

 Department of Agriculture for 1909,' Washington. 



" A REMARKABLE scene was witnessed in Durban Bay recently, 

 when thousands of ' Cape Salmon,'* chased up the harbour entrance 

 by Porpoises, were engulfed in a narrow strip of water at the harbour 

 extension works. When the tide receded, the fish fell an easy prey 

 to a horde of coolies, who speedily gathered them, while the Natal 

 Police secured large hauls, which were distributed to the crews of 

 H.M.S. ' Forte' and other ships. Some of the fish weighed upwards 

 of 251b."—' Shooting Times,' January 14th, 1911. 



[I have also seen Porpoises in regimental order patrolling the shore 

 at Durban, and afterwards entering the harbour there in a similar 

 formation. — Ed.] 



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