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shot at all altitudes, in proof of which I may mention that a friend 

 of mine, who was the highest-posted gun in a mountain beat last 

 year, shot in the same beat a chamois and a huge bear ; and at 

 Count Geza Andrassy's, in Northern Hungary, the annual fox-hunting 

 season is always interrupted by a two or three days' bear shoot, only 

 a few hours by carriage from the hunt. In this short annual inter- 

 mezzo, a few bears and a larger number of very large boars are 

 almost always bagged. 



Bears have been recorded as weighing 560 lbs., but one of over 

 300 lbs. (150 kilos) is considered a fine specimen. Count Geza 

 Andrassy shot one in 1895 weighing 276 kilos. 



In heavy winters the great grey wolf comes far into the country, 

 from East Galicia and Bukowina, to the despair of all game preservers 



and stock owners, even threatening solitarv men. In 



Wolf. , r '^ / 1 1 



one way or another, some lour or nve hundred are 



annually killed in the land. 



The wild boar is plentiful in parts of the country. It grows 

 to a great size, and may weigh more than 500 lbs. It is every- 

 where the same pluckv fighter, and a tusk of a o^ood 

 Boar. 1 . t> ^ 



Hungarian boar is a trophy always worth the winning. 



As our boars are found only in the great forests, they cannot be 



ridden, and are there only shot, the majority in the depth of winter. 



either in beats or tracked with dogs. The published returns show 



that about 3,000 are shot every year. 



But when we speak of "big game" tout coiu-t, we mean our 



red deer, and a i^lance at the aforementioned com- 

 Red Deer. 



peting trophies at Budapest each autumn is sufficient 



