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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 tfncTits 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. 



