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fine old bucks were shot in a day. These large bags are for the 

 most part made in the spring with carriage stalking. The measure- 

 ments of the finest roe horns at the autumnal competition are 

 almost incredible. The weight of a good buck grallocked can 

 easily top 60 lbs. The longest roe horn that has come under 

 my observation measured thirty-two centimetres, and greatest thick- 

 ness round the burr twenty-five centimetres. 



-It is perhaps unnecessary to remark that good sportsmen regard 

 the roebuck as game for the rifie only. 



That goat-like antelope, the chamois, is no stranger to Hungary, 

 though absent in the enormous numbers that frequent the Austrian 



Alps. Yet we have chamois in sufficient abundance 



Chamois. 

 to give sport, and the quality of our beasts makes 



up in great measure for the quantity. Chamois are found in the 

 high Carpathian mountains, as well as in the snows of Transylvania. 

 Their heads are exceptionally fine in the latter district. The record 

 buck's horn, shot in these parts by Count Arpad Teleki. is thirty- 

 two centimetres* in lenirth over the outer curve and eleven 

 centimetres round the base, whereas a horn of twenty centimetres 

 is a very good average horn in the Austrian Alps. 



A number of exotic animals have been introduced in our 

 mountains with no little success, such as ibex and moufflon. 1 he 



Sardinian moufflon was introduced by Count A. For- 



^ , , 11 11 Moufflon, 



gach at Gymes as far back as 1868, and has succeeded ^^^ 



so well that it may fairly be reckoned among the 



game of the country. The so-called moufflon of North Africa. 



* This would be rather over a foot in English measurement. 



