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interesting to specialists ; and, indeed, as will be 

 seen hereafter, I met one here. To the larger 

 animals I have already referred, and shall do so 

 again to the bear, wolf, and chamois. Boedeer are 

 not very plentiful, but there are a few. The finest 

 roebuck head I ever saw in my life was shot in the 

 Velez in '92, and for weight, length, span, and 

 beauty would be hard to beat. Foxes I should say 

 are rare — at least I never heard one bark at night, 

 and never saw but one. Badgers, wild cats, and 

 martens are all to be found, the latter in consider- 

 able numbers. Hares only occur on the lower 

 ground, and are not plentiful there. The list of 

 larger mammals is completed by squirrels, red and 

 black. 



Vultures, eagles, and hawks abound, from the 

 majestic lammergeier downwards, and there are 

 all sorts of owls in the woods. Capercailzie 

 exist, but are not common. This, however, nearly 

 completes the list — at all events, of birds of any 

 size. Woodpeckers abound, but pigeons are not 

 so common as might be supposed. I once saw a 

 pair of hoopoes near camp ; they are common in the 

 Nevesinjskopolje. I also saw a bee-eater once or 

 twice, and once a widgeon, at the Lake. A pair 

 of sandpipers occasionally frequented it also. In 

 the mountain itself, besides the Falconida, there are 

 blue-rocks, and the pretty wall-creeper, which 

 might be taken for a large butterfly, so brilliant is 



