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IN TRANSYLVANTA. 571 
enough to pursue his own sport during our beat, and conse- 
quently came dangerously near one of the guns. The small 
shot, however, unfortunately did not quite manage to knock 
down the powerful bird, and it went off with its feathers 
much cut up and its legs hanging. 
I must now bring my ornithological sketches from Tran- 
sylvania to a conclusion, and can only hope that they may 
contain something which will be of interest to the 
naturalist. 
