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who has turned them out on his property, and who speaks very 

 encouragingly of their rapid increase ; and the Council hear from 

 time to time of the increase of pheasants in other localities. 



The Council have sent to San Francisco, California, for a consign- 

 ment of the splendid mountain quail of that country. And, at the 

 request of the Society, His Excellency the Governor has kindly 

 placed himself in communication with His Excellency Lord Mayo 

 the Viceroy of India, on the subject of procuring partridges, phea- 

 sants, and jungle fowl from that country. 



From past experience in the operations of the Society, the 

 Council have considered it desirable to solicit, through the medium 

 of the Field, and Land and Water newspapers in the mother 

 country, the kind donations of animals and birds suitable to this 

 climate, from owners of landed property and others who may 

 possess them. 



The Council intend to renew their efforts in the next session of 

 Parliament, to amend the present Game Act. It is their opinion 

 that the swivel gun ought to be at once abolished, as the effect of 

 that weapon is to wound as many birds as are killed ; independently 

 to its putting a stop to all legitimate sport. 



The Council notice with regret that there is amongst some persons 

 a tendency to decry the cause of acclimatisation, but there are others 

 who take a very different view, and who regard the disinterested 

 labours of the Society as useful in the highest degree. Its sole aim 

 is to benefit the Colony at large, by filling its forests with game, and 

 its rivers and creeks with fish, thereby providing a variety of food 

 and sport for the inhabitants. Its efforts will be better appreciated 

 as time goes on, and as the results become more apparent. 



The Council cannot conclude this report without expressing their 

 great obligations to the present Government, and to the late Parlia- 

 ment, for the supplies granted to carry on the work ; they would also 

 respectfully wish to thank His Excellency the Governor, the Patron 

 of the Society, for the great interest he has always shown in its 

 proceedings. 



The Council are likewise not unmindful of the valuable services 

 in the cause of acclimatisation hitherto rendered by His Excellency 

 Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and there 



