THE IBIS. 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. VI. APRIL 1884. 



XIII. — Field-Notes from Slavonia and Hungary, with an An- 

 notated List of the Birds observed in Slavonia. By W. 

 Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 



The following is an account of an ornithological trip under- 

 taken by Messrs. Harrison, Tennant, and the writer during 

 portions of the months of May and June of the present year 

 (1883) for the purpose of visiting the Ohedska Bara, an ex- 

 tensive marsh on the river Save, in Slavonia. It has been 

 thought best to treat of it in diary form, giving a broad out- 

 line of our doings, and to conclude with a complete list of all 

 the species of birds observed in Slavonia, a province whose 

 avifauna seems to have received little or no attention at the 

 hands of ornithologists ; and it is hoped that the information 

 thus afforded may be useful as a contribution towards filling 

 up a gap in our knowledge of the distribution of birds in 

 Europe. 



We left London on the evening of the lltli of May, and 

 after a few hours' halt at Vienna, arrived at Buda-Pesth on 

 the morning of the 15th. Here it was necessary to make 

 a short stay to present our letter of introduction to the British 



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