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may search not only Glengarry but the 

 whole of the Highlands to-day in vain ; 

 they are gone beyond recall, and are 

 known to us now only as the rarest of 

 visitors. Fortunately the intelligence of 

 keepers and the interest of their masters 

 have at last been aroused, the age of in- 

 discriminate slaughter may be said to be 

 past, and though careful supervision of 

 the vermin list is still the duty too often 

 neglected of every owner or tenant of a 

 shooting, most of the modern school of 

 gamekeepers unite some knowledge of 

 natural history to their many other good 

 qualities, and may be fairly trusted not 

 to abuse their powers of summary juris- 

 diction. Abroad it is to be feared that 

 a less desirable state of affairs prevails, 

 even apart from those countries where 

 almost every creature which cannot be 

 classed as vermin is regarded as legitimate 

 game and pursued accordingly. 



The following is the list of vermin 

 killed on the estates of Count Andreas 

 Csekonics, at Zsombolya in Hungary, 



