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heard of it further north, and it has only been occasionally found in our 
area,—the region which the naturalists here have called the L.M.B.C. 
district. I have two specimens which have been brought into Liverpool, 
and the fishermen at Port Erin, at the south end of the Isle of Man, 
occasionally catch the species. It is recorded in the ‘ Fauna of Liverpool 
Bay,’ vol. iii. p. 53 (1892).” 
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Tue ‘ Times of Swazieland’ lately received from Mr. John A. Major, 
of the Umhlaba Bomvu, Lubombo, an interesting communication on the 
subject of rinderpest amongst the game which at one time abounded on his 
farm and in its vicinity. Mr. Major writes :—* All the game of any con- 
sequence has pretty well died from rinderpest. I believe every Koodoo on 
the eastern range is dead, together with most of the Rooi-rheibuck; the 
mortality seems to have been greater amongst these two kinds of Buck 
than amongst others. From Mr. Whittaker and the natives I hear all the 
Inyala about the top end of the Tembi have died. Hearing of a Buffalo 
down near Wests’ place in Portuguese territory, I went out with my boys 
to try and get a shot at same. We found the spoor well in Portuguese 
territory, as also a great number of dead game. I picked up and carried 
home no fewer than six pair of Koodoo horns, from a very old bull down- 
wards. This does not include what the Kaffirs picked up. The game 
appear to die by the banks of the rivers; where the Palata runs through 
the mountain is a perfect charnel-house. From my own observation here 
the game seem to die, and the disease spread, in much the same manner as 
it has done with cattle, but sooner or later to become contaminated. ‘The 
place where the disease appears to be absent is at the top end of the 
Umnyama River. buffalo, Waterbuck, and Blue Wilderbeeste, appear to 
be the only game not affected with the disease; all other game are totally 
disappearing. Wild Pigs are particularly subject to the disease, and seven 
Pigs belonging to Karl Groening, which were herded with his cattle, died 
of the pest.” 
THE Johannesburg ‘ Star ’ has received from King William’s Town the 
following communication :—‘‘ Mr. J. D. Ellis, Honorary Secretary of the 
Society for the Acclimatization of British Fish in the Cape Colony, 
yesterday received from Messrs. Halse’s farm at Carnarvon a magnificent 
Loch Leven Trout, weighing 9 lb., 25 inches long and 16 in girth, which 
escaped from the reservoir and was accidentally killed. It was one of a 
number of fry liberated in Messrs. Halse’s dam only three and a half years 
ago, and is a great credit to the Pirie Hatchery, from which it was taken 
in the first instance.” 
