A WINTER CAMPAIGN IN DON AN A. 



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swallows and insect-feeding birds with an outer fringe of 

 kites, kestrels and magpies, all preying on belated locusts 

 and coleoptera. Legions of mice — common house-mice, 



A STAG OF THIRTEEN POINTS. 



as far as we could judge — with land- and water-rats, fled 

 from the fiery jungle ; here and there a grizzly mongoose 



