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give leave to any properly recommended persons. They are, however, 

 very dense and thorny and want persistent beating. 



At Bourgas, however, there is. or used to be, free pheasant-shoot- 

 ing, no whit inferior to that of Yamboli. The covert is likewise very 



RED DEER FROM KOPRISHTITZA (RHODOPE), 1S90 

 (In the possession of M. Zcnoff, of Sofia) 



Length from tip to base 4ii inches 



Circumference at base 9 ,, 



Circumference between bez and trez, 7J „ 



[As the horns are not mounted on their own skull no spread measurement can be given, but it 

 is authentically stated as over 47 inches.] 



tangled and protected with masses of "wait-a-bit" thorn of the worst 

 description. With a patient, persevering dog, though, I have had good 

 sport there alone, and two or three guns with beaters might make 

 a pretty bag, as there is no lack of birds. The Bourgas lakes also 

 swarm with wild fowl of every description, and, whilst I was shooting 



