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the south by the chamois. These northern and southern districts 

 have, moreover, their distinct and characteristic methods 

 Northern and of shooting, which are easily explained. The landed 

 ou ern proprietors of the north pass the greater portion of the 



Methods. year on their estates, learning intimately the habits of 



the game and taking the keenest interest in protecting 

 it against vermin and poachers. Two results have, as might be ex- 

 pected, attended this energetic suppression of poaching : the peasants 



KEEPER'S LODGE (COMANESTI, CARPATHIANS) 



are but indifferent chasseurs; and, particularly since the passing of 

 the new game laws by the Roumanian Parliament, the game has 

 appreciably and steadily increased. 



Vastly different are the conditions that obtain in the southern 



