ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 



IN 



TRANSYLVANIA. 



DURING the end of July and the beginning of August 1882 I 

 found time to carry out a long-projected trip, and made the 

 Transylvanian Alps the scene of my shooting excursions and 

 ornithological studies. 



The journey from the frontier of Hungary and Transylvania 

 to the railway-station near the town of Hatszeg lasted from 

 sunrise until ahout two o'clock in the afternoon ; but though 

 1 kept a careful watch out of the windows of the carriage, I 

 saw but little of the bird-world. On the bare hilly tracts of 

 country sparsely covered with steppe-grass, which give many 

 parts of the interior of Transylvania such a melancholy 

 character, great numbers of Magpies and Tree- Sparrows 

 were flying about the stunted acacia-hedges near the solitary 

 huts; but these, together with some Havens (Corvus corax}, 

 Imperial Eagles (^4 quila imperialist Spotted Eagles (A.ncevia), 

 occasional Black Kites (Milvus ater) } somewhat more nume- 

 rous Buzzards (Buteo vulgaris), Common Kites (Milvus re- 

 galis), Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) , and a few Crested Larks 



