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nection with the expedition down the Danube, but also in regard 

 to the ' Journey in the East ' (Egypt to the Nubian frontier and 

 Palestine), and the sketches of sport and natural history in 

 Spain and Transylvania which follow. 



Nowhere do we remember to have read so good an account as 

 is given (pp. 409 — 415) of the Cinereous Vulture, as observed at 

 Godollo, in Central Hungary, and in the great woods of Syrmia 

 and Fruska-Gora, on the right bank of the Danube. In these 

 districts it is a true forest bird as regards its nesting and 

 roosting-places, for both are situated in the midst of woods 

 many miles in extent. Its food it seeks beyond the wooded 

 mountains among the bare stony hills that slope partly north- 

 wards to the Danube, and partly southwards to the valley of the 

 Save, and the author was convinced that those which breed in 

 the Fruska-Gora range into the Bosnian and Servian Mountains 

 in search of prey. During the afternoon they like to rest on 

 rocks, and where these are scarce they evidently search for 

 them and congregate there. In the midst of the Fruska-Gora 

 Woods was only one very small group of rocky pinnacles, and 

 these of an afternoon were crowded with Vultures, while the 

 extraordinary quantity of droppings, castings, and feathers lying 

 about showed that the spot must be a favourite resort of these 

 huge raptorial birds. 



Did space permit there are many interesting observations 

 which we should like to quote, but must refer the reader to the 

 book itself. English naturalists who are unable to read it in the 

 original German will be grateful to Mr. Danford for his excellent 

 translation. 



There are no illustrations or route-maps, which, we think, is 

 to be regretted, especially as an artist accompanied the royal 

 party ; but what is intended for a portrait of the Prince (with 

 his first Bear lying dead in the snow), appears as a frontispiece, 

 though it is not in the least degree like him. We speak 

 advisedly, having had the honour of spending the best part of 

 two days in his company only a few months before the Danubian 

 Expedition was undertaken, and having seen him again in June, 

 1887. His photograph, presented by himself, lies before us as 

 we write. It is but fair to add that the frontispiece is the only 

 unsatisfactory page in the whole volume. 



