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such tastes which his exalted position afforded him, would lead 

 one to expect in the narrative of the Crown Prince's experiences 

 a most entertaining book. Nor will the reader be disappointed, 

 especially if he be an ornithologist, for to this branch of Zoology 

 was the Prince chiefly addicted. He was particularly interested 

 in the larger birds of prey, and felt as much triumph in stalking 

 and shooting an Eagle as he did in slaying a deer. Few men 

 probably have ever had the chance of killing so many Eagles as 

 he had, and it was something to boast of that he had seen in 

 their natural haunts, and had outwitted and shot with his own 

 gun or rifle, such grand Eaptores as the great Sea Eagle, the 

 Golden, the Imperial, the Spotted, Bonelli's, and the Booted 

 Eagles, to say nothing of Ospreys, Kites, and Buzzards, and the 

 Great Eagle Owl. His adventures in search of these and other 

 birds whose haunts lay in the wildest parts of his dominions are 

 simply yet graphically told in the book before us, and are inter- 

 spersed with still more stirring episodes relating to the chase of 

 the Wolf, Bear, and Wild Boar. 



The first portion of the volume is occupied with an account 

 of an expedition to the low-lying, swampy, yet well-wooded, 

 district of the Lower Danube, where several pairs of White-tailed 

 and Imperial Eagles had their eyries, where Ospreys fished 

 unmolested, Kites and Marsh Harriers preyed upon a great 

 variety of water-fowl, and Herons, Night Herons, Bitterns, 

 Ibises, Egrets, and Cormorants nested, it might almost be said, 

 in profusion; so wild, so lonely, and so generally inaccessible 

 was their chosen stronghold. 



In this paradise for ornithologists fifteen days were spent, in 

 company with Drs. Brehm and Von Homeyer, assisted by guides, 

 keepers, and skilled taxidermists to preserve such trophies as 

 were selected for the royal collection. Every evening after 

 dinner, as the members of the party enjoyed the post-prandial 

 cigar on board the little steamer which conveyed them, the 

 events of the day were discussed and noted in the journal, the 

 specimens obtained were examined, admired, and properly 

 labelled, and the programme for the next day arranged. Every- 

 thing was done methodically and well, and no opportunity was 

 lost of learning as much as possible about the fauna of the 

 country explored. The general accuracy of the observations 

 made is apparent upon every page of the book, not only in con- 



