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Song- Sparrow, Melospiza fasciata. — Common in the district, 

 nesting on the ground, and using a little horsehair in the lining. 



Cliff- Swallow, Petrochelidon lunifrons. — Half-a-dozen pairs 

 nested under the eaves of a stone house at Carlyle ; we did not 

 meet with the species elsewhere. 



Barn- Swallow, Chelidon erythrog aster. — The only male and 

 female preserved belonged to a small colony which were nesting 

 among the rafters of a sod cabin. 



White-rumped Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. — 

 The only one observed was an adult, which we saw perching on a 

 pile of wood at the Little Pipestone Creek. 



Yellow-throated Vireo, Vireo flavifrons. — This warbler 

 bred commonly in the scrub along Moose Creek. 



SALMON AND TROUT CULTURE IN NATAL. 

 By Col. H. W. Feilden, C.M.Z.S. 



During the past few years various endeavours have been 

 made to stock the rivers of the garden colony of South Africa 

 with Salmon and Trout, and these attempts have proved so far 

 satisfactory that the best results may be hoped for, though the 

 complete acclimatization of Salmonidce in South African rivers 

 cannot yet be described as a thoroughly accomplished fact. 



The colony of Natal, embracing an area equal to about that 

 of Scotland, rises by a series of steps from the Indian Ocean to 

 its highest altitude in the peaks of the Drakensberg, and is 

 watered throughout by a network of rivers and streams having 

 their sources in that great mountain range which forms the 

 western and northern boundary of the colony. To the eye of 

 the casual traveller through Natal, most of the rivers appear the 

 very ideal of trouting streams, and when one sees them issuing 

 from the mountains through beautifully wooded kloofs (valleys), 

 these bright, clear, cool streams remind one of good trout waters 

 in English dales or Scottish Highlands. The similitude is 

 heightened when a snow storm occurs, as I have myself seen in 

 the northernmost, or Klip River, division of the colony, covering 

 the summits of the Berg, plentifully bestrewing the outlying spurs 

 and extending over the lower plains, causing great damage to 



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