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The Reports of tlie Cliairmen, Referents, and Recording Secretaries of tlie Special Com- 

 mittees. 



The Reports of the Chairmen, Referents, and Secretaries of the different Sections. 



The discussion and settlement or aquittance of the same. 



The elections for the permanent international ornitholog. Committee. 



Propositions, their discussion, and disposal of the same. 



Concluding address of the President of Congress, and of the Chairman of the scientific Com- 

 mittee. 



24. At 2 clok p. m., farewell banquet. 



25. Tite excursions. The start of those members of Congress, who announced their intention 

 to participate in one, or the other of the excursions. 



The following excursions have been arranged : 



A) To the lalce of Balaton, Host : the Count Tassilo Festetich. Leader Mr. Otto Herman, M. P. 

 Here may be seen and studied: Ardea alba, cinerea, purpurea. Ibis falcinellus. Platalea leu- 



corodia. Hydrochelidon leucoptera. Lusciniola melanopogon. Panurus biarmicus etc. 



This excursion is combined with the visit to tJie lalce of Velenose, and the extensive sivamps at 

 Dinnyés. Hosts : Mrrs Benedikt and Paul Meszleny. Leader Mr. Steven von Chernel. Here may be 

 seen and studied grand nesting places of Larus ridibundus, Hydrochelidon fissipes, Hydrochelidon 

 leucoptera, hybrida, and Glareola pratincola. Further nests of Ardea cinerea, purpurea, minuta, 

 Locustella luscinioides, Erythacus cyaneculus, Panurus biarmicus, and several species of aquatic 

 birds, pertaining to the genera of Tringa, Totanus, Anas, and Podiceps etc. etc. 



B) To the lalie of Ferto. Host : the Count Béla Széchenyi. Leader : Dr. -Julius Madarasz. 



Here may he seen and studied : extensive nesting places of Hymantopus rufipes. Recur- 

 virostra avocetta. Sterna nilotica, and of different species of Tringa, Totanus, Anas etc. etc. 



This excursion is combined with the visit to the extensive swamps, called the Hansdg, near 

 Kapuvar, and Csorna. Host : the Baron Gustave Berg. Here may be seen nests of Aquila naevia, 

 Ardea cinerea, Locustella naevia, and fluviatilis, and of many other interesting birds. 



C) To Mesöhegyes. Host: The Hungarian State. Leader Lieutenant General John Horvath. 

 Here may be seen flocks of Otis tarda, and the bird fauna of the great Hungarian plains. 



D) To the Delta of the Drcica-Banube, especially to the estate of Be'llye. Host : His Luper. and 

 Eoyal Highness he Archiduke Albrecht. Leader Professor Gabriel Szikla. 



Here may be seen : the nests of Haliaetus albicillus , Pandion haliaetus, Ciconia nigra etc. etc. 



With this excursion is combined the visit to the great S'wamj^s of Kologyvär : Host : Mr. Béla 

 Nikolits. Here may be seen and observed the very extensive nesting colonies of various Ardeas, 

 •of Ibis falcinellus, of Platalea leucorodia, and many other aquatic birds in truly immense numbers. 



PROGRAMM FUR DEN II. INTERNATIONALEN ORNITHOLOGISCHEN CONGRESS. 



HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM UNGARISCHEN COMITÉ. 



I. Allgemeiner Teil. 



1. Der II. internationale ornithologische Congress, dessen Kosten die kön. ung. Regierung, 

 die Hauptstadt Budapest und der Congress, aus eigenen Einnahmen bestreiten, tritt am 17. Mai, 

 das ist am Pfiugst-Sonntage des Jahres 1891 in Ungarns Hauptstadt, Budapest, zusammen und wird 

 am 20. desselben Monates geschlossen. 



2. Die Centralstelle für sämnitliche Angelegenheiten befindet sich im Palais des ungarischen 

 National-Museums zu Budapest, wo alle Anmeldungen zu geschehen haben und wohin alle Anfragen 

 zu richten sind. 



3. Das ungarische Comité hat Vorsorge getrofien, dass zu Ehren des Congresses eine Aus- 

 stellung der Ornis der Länder der ungarischen Krone stattfinde u. z. in Form einer systematisch- 



