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Brehm and the late E. F. von Homeyer, while Prof. A. von Pelzeln 

 was allowed to publish extracts from the narrative of ' Fiinfzehn 

 Tage auf der Donau,' printed for private circulation. In 1879 

 similar sketches were given of a recent visit to Spain and Portugal ; 

 ' Eine Orient lleise ' followed, with a graphic description of a journey 

 up the Nile to Nubia, and afterwards through Palestine ; other 

 articles, chiefly on ornithology, subsequently made their appear- 

 ance, and finally all these papers were published in one volume. 

 Mr. Danford, as a brother sportsman and ornithologist, was strongly 

 impressed by the freshness and originality of the observations made 

 by the young author, whose permission to translate the work was 

 obtained, and the task, which was a labour of love, was already 

 far advanced when the sad death of the Crown Prince took place. 

 Mr. Danford's familiarity with many of the localities mentioned, as 

 well as with the technicalities of natural history and sport, coupled 

 with his knowledge of German, have enabled him to render the 

 author's exact meaning and even to reproduce his vivacious turns 

 of phrase with a fidelity which calls for our highest admiration. 



Everyone will, we think, enjoy the description of the marshy low- 

 lying woods of the Danube and their profusion of bird-life ; while 

 if the destruction of White-tailed Eagles, Vultures, Black Storks, 

 &c. at their breeding-places seems too prominent a feature, it must 

 be remembered that the nests to which the Crown Prince was 

 taken were those known to the foresters and comparatively easy of 

 access, whereas ten times as many lay hidden at some distance 

 away from his route. In the Fruska-Gora, Homeyer shot a Griffon 

 Vulture from its nest on an oak, the only instance with which we 

 are acquainted of a tree being selected by that cliff-haunting species, 

 though the Black Vulture, which was met with in the same locality, 

 always nests in a tree. An interesting account is given of the 

 remarkable antipathy felt by the " Stein " Eagles for the Black 

 Vulture, which they attack on every possible occasion; from the 

 description we are inclined to believe that the aggressors are imma- 

 ture Golden Eagles which, having as yet no domestic cares, employ 

 their time in persecuting the Vultures. As regards the identity of 

 the Pigmy and the Booted Eagles the Author's experience coincides 

 with our own, and it is surprising that different views should have 

 been entertained for so long a time in certain quarters. 



The visit of the Crown Prince to Spain in 1879 was of brief 

 duration, and some of the assertions set forth in this work must 

 charitably be set down to inexperience. With regard to the distribu- 

 tion and numbers of the Bearded Vulture, a rude and flat contra- 

 diction is given to an ornithologist who had certainly passed more 

 months among tho haunts of that bird than the Crown Prince had 

 spent days ; and upon this point we may therefore quote the inde- 

 pendent testimony of Lord Lilford, who is unrivalled for his 

 acquaintance with birds of prey in all parts of the Peninsula : — 

 " I have noticed this [the BeardedJ Vulture in almost every province 

 of Spain that I have visited. A pair are generally to be found 

 breeding in the neighbourhood of every establishment of Griffons, 



