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dozen men in a storm. From the marshy nature of the 

 ground, this forest of Gorgeny is called the Mocs iir (or swamp-) 

 forest. We stayed at Gorgeny Szent Imri from the 22nd of 

 May to the 30tli of May, finding a somewhat different fauna. 

 Woodpeckers, Thrushes, and Blackbirds (which we had failed 

 to observe in the Mezoseg), Stock-Doves, Jackdaws, and 

 Starlings were numerous ; Hoopoes bred in the hollow trees 

 in deserted Woodpeckers^ holes ; and Orioles, Lesser Grey 

 Shrikes, and Red-backed Shrikes were as abundant as in the 

 Mezoseg, Water birds were, of course, almost absent. 



We proceeded to Fauczal, higher up the Gorgeny valley, 

 on the 30th May, passing along the banks of a rushing moun- 

 tain-river, down which huge rafts of pine wood are floated 

 from the mountains. On both sides the hills rise steeply as 

 the valley contracts, beech wood clothing their sides and sum- 

 mits, with a few tall pines relieving the lighter foliage with 

 their more sombre tints. At Fanczal and Ober-Fanczal 

 (eight miles up a lateral valley from Fanczal) we remained till 

 the 5th of June, not adding much to our collections, but 

 forming some idea of the limited avifauna of the pine-region "^ 

 and of the mossy summits of the mountains above the pines 

 at an elevation of about 4000-4500 feet. In these localities 

 we found the Crested and Marsh Titmice and the Ring- 

 Ouzel not uncommon, the latter species frequenting the upper 

 limit of the pine-woods ; and we heard the Great Black Wood- 

 pecker and the Capercaillie. The Spotted Eagle w^as com- 

 mon in the beech- and pine-clad valleys, and the Golden 

 Eagle was occasionally recognized. Over the summit of the 

 Fanczal Berg two Kestrels were seen hovering ; and there also 

 we procured a good many specimens of the Water-Pipit. 

 The Dipper frequented the streams ; and the Grey Wagtail 

 became more abundant as we ascended the valleys. Shrikes, 

 Orioles, Jackdaws, Stock-Doves, and Turtledoves, and by 

 far the greater part of the previously observed fauna entirely 

 disappeared, although Fanczal is not more than fifteen miles 



* The trees forming tlie great biilk of the mountain-forests are Abies 

 pectinafa and A. e.vcelsa. A fourth of the country is under wood. The 

 largest pine exhibited at the Vienna exhibition was cut near Fanczal. 



