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of tropical birds; and from tbc abundance of their favorite food 
and the suitable temperature, we entertain no doubt of permanently 
establishing all of these in a wild state in the higher alpine regions 
of Gipps Land. From the same part of India we have also purchased 
a large number of the three other excellent, hardy, and delicious birds 
before you, viz. :—The lerwa nivicola, or Himalayan ptarmigan, for 
the mountains, and the common black francolin and the chukar 
partridge for the lower country. Time will not permit me to allude 
to a number of other birds, to which I wished to draw your at¬ 
tention in connexion with our labours, such as the Californian quail 
and tire summer duck, both of which breed with us now in abun¬ 
dance. But before leaving the birds I must announce a very in¬ 
teresting fact, that Mr. Bishop, a miner and storekeeper at Kingower, 
has succeded in rearing the rnallee hen (Leipoa ocellata ) in numbers 
to maturity in his poultry yard, and they w'ere all laying on the 27th 
October last. As this bird lays an enormous number of eggs, and al¬ 
though the bird is not large, the egg is of the extraordinary large 
size which you see here, each of them weighing about seven ounces, 
it may readily be conceived what a valuable addition it will be to 
our poultry-yards, and to those of our acclimatising correspondents 
in Europe, who look to us for something good in return for the 
many valuable contributions they afford to us. 
Quadrupeds. 
Of Quadrupeds I have left myself no time to speak; although 
concerning them the Society may bo proud of what it has already 
done, and may claim a high consideration for what it is at pre¬ 
sent engaged in. The Hare and Rabbit have been introduced, and 
the latter so thoroughly acclimatised, that it swarms in hundreds in 
some localities, and can at any time be extended to others. The 
Bos Iudicus, both the large variety, or Brahmin hull, and the small 
zebu, have been introduced, and more are coming. That large an¬ 
telope, the Nylgau, of which a specimen is before you, has also been 
purchased by one of our correspondents, but as the flesh is not of 
the finest quality, no additional trouble will be taken with it. Of the 
Sambur deer, and the spotted Axis deer of Iudia, you see before you 
specimens imported by the Society; of the first, whidh reminds us 
of the red deer of Europe, we have nine, and of the latter, which 
resembles the fallow deer, we have also nine, and more of each are 
coming. Six of each have been liberated, and when our fresh stock 
arrives, they will all be liberated in the warmer northern part of the 
colony, where in a climate, as you see by the map, like their native 
