There has this year been correspondence in the London Times about the possibility of creating a national park out of part of the Nyika Plateau; notably the letter from the Secretary of the Fauna Preservation Society, published on 6th April, 1953, and that from Sir George Stapledon on 10th April. The information below consists of a general account of the plateau and some more specialized notes, derived mainly from knowledge of the birds, with a view to indicating the faunistic isolation of the area.