INTRODUCTION. 



a system of observers, with such men as Count C FORGACH, Stefan 

 ChERNEL von ChERNELHAZA, J. VON Csato, Count J. Majlath 

 A. VON BUDA, Titus Csorgey at their head; the staff of the Royal 

 Forest- Department, which has since 1890 been working with clockwork 

 regularity, — all these, united with the fact that the Government and 

 Legislature of Hungary have supported the work with a munificence 

 quite unprecedented, have made it possible to attain results which per- 

 haps deserve some notice. 



V. VON TSCHUSI: (in: Ornith. Jahrbuch 1904. p. 115) writes: „it 

 ought to be acknowledged that the H. C. O. has paved the way for a 

 scientific Ornithophaenology." This frank acknowledgement of one of 

 the chief authorities for Palaearctic Ornithology is certainly encou- 

 raging. In the meantime we are satisfied to have been able to point 

 out the right direction. 



Miss Helene VON Middendorff in Hellenorm (Esthonia), the 

 granddaughter of A. von Middendorff, author of the „Isepiptesen Russ- 

 lands" (1855), has generously presented the H. C. O. with all the material 

 on Bird-Migration left by her late grandfather, a most valuable gift, 

 for which we express our sincerest thanks. 



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