HUNGARY 



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The bear, our largest animal, is found in all the northern moun- 

 tainous tracts of Hungary and also in Transylvania. Judging from 

 statistics, some 200 bears are killed annually, a few- 



Bear. 



trapped, but the majority shot. Beats in the autumn 



months are the favourite plan of killing bears, A record bag was 



A DAY'S BAG ON THE ESTATE OF COUNT GEZA ANDRASSY 

 (Two Bear and six Boar) 



obtained by a party in Transylvania, ten or twelve guns bagging, 

 if I remember right, twenty-eight bears in the course of three weeks, 

 and in the same season another party shot twenty-two. Bears are 



