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by any other nation, as was afforded in 1891 by 

 our generous Hungarian hosts. Certainly not in 

 England, for we can hardly imagine any landed 

 proprietor, however anxious for the national 

 honour, or desirous of pleasing an International 

 Congress of Ornithologists, supplying boats, guns 

 and cartridges, and skilled boatmen to wander 

 through his preserves, to shoot Ducks and Geese, 

 and anything else ornithological that came in 

 their way. 



Certainly one must go to Hungary to find 

 anyone like Baron Von Berg, who met us with 

 a large ferry-boat, roofed in and ornamented 

 with flags of all nations, with a sumptuous repast 

 on board — very welcome after our hot morning 

 in the Hansdg Marshes. So big was the ferry- 

 boat, that our host had removed nearly all the 

 bridges on the canal for miles, to make room 

 for our triumphal procession. Every now and 

 then a halt took place, when some of us were 

 conveyed in a small boat to some spot, marked 

 down days before, where there was a nest of a 

 Goshawk or Spotted Eagle, or of some other bird 

 non-breeding in our more northern isles. We 

 wound up with a Stork's nest, and were then 



