ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
IN 
TRANSYLVANIA. 
Durine the end of July and the beginning of August 1882 I 
found time to carry out a long-projected trip, and made the 
Transylvanian Alps the scene of my shooting excursions and 
ornithological studies. 
The journey from the frontier of Hungary and Transylvania 
to the railway-station near the town of Hatszeg lasted from 
sunrise until about two o’clock in the afternoon ; but though 
1 kept a careful watch out of the windows of the carriage, I 
saw but little of the bird-world. On the bare hilly tracts of 
country sparsely covered with steppe-grass, which give many 
parts of the interior of Transylvania such a melancholy 
character, great numbers of Magpies and Tree-Sparrows 
were flying about the stunted acacia-hedges near the solitary 
huts; but these, together with some Ravens (Corvus cora.z), 
Imperial Hagles (Aquila imperialis), Spotted Hagles (A. nevia), 
occasional Black Kites (Milvus ater), somewhat more nume- 
rous Buzzards (Buteo vulgaris), Common Kites (Milvus re- 
galis), Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus), and a few Crested Larks 
