The hare increases in size and weight, and has three and four leverets at a birth.

The pheasant has spread from end to end of the Colony.

The house-fly drives back the loathsome flesh-fly or blue-bottle, to the salvation of blankets and fresh meat.
The Briton of the south has indeed taken with him all that he could of the old country.
[Footnote 1: The _tutu_, a danger to inexperienced sheep and cattle, was not eaten by horses.

The berries were poisonous enough to kill an imported elephant on one occasion.

Would that they had done as much for the rabbit!] He has also brought a few things which he wishes he had left behind.
The Hessian fly, the wire-worm, the flea, and grubs and scale insects thrive mischievously.