temperature, although the traveller may have no better couch than the bare ground. Having breakfasted, we started on foot, and following the course of the Angas, enjoyed the amusement of shoot ing ducks, snipes, and quails. These birds are very abundant throughout the colony, and, together with par rots, paroquets, and bronzed pigeons, afford excellent amusement to the sportsman, and no inconsiderable ad dition to the delicacies of the cuisine—a circumstance by no means to be overlooked among the attractions of a new colony. The ducks were of a large dark species, and ex tremely rich in flavour ; and so numerous were the quails, that they started almost from under our feet at every thirty paces. They would be esteemed a delicacy by the most fastidious gourmand; and so highly prized were they in the colony, that they were readily purchased in the market at from 8d. to Is. a pair; thus affording an honest subsistence to individuals, who in England could not have indulged their sporting habits without infringing the game laws. We also shot a snake, about six feet in length, of the brown species, said to be venomous; but this point I could not determine, as the reptile’s head was completely mangled by the charge, which was fired at the distance of a few feet. It was the first that I had seen alive, after a month’s residence in the colony; and at that time no instance of a fatal injury from this cause had occurred in South Australia ; from which we are, perhaps, justified in inferring, that there, as in other parts of the world, the destructive nature of these animals has been much exaggerated. From a minute study of their struc ture in South Australia, we should probably derive a E