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body.” In these primitive communities, however, it is evident 
that the sportsman or naturalist is far safer than a missionary, 
and this seems to be the case in all parts of the world; it has 
been the writer’s experience in Malaya and Southern Africa, 
and Mr. Lodge evidently possessed that one touch of nature 
which opens the savage heart as well as the hut of its owner. 
The opening chapters refer to birds’-nesting in Spain, but 
it is when we reach the Balkans that the narrative has perhaps 
the greater charm, and we are then in the haunts of the 
Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus and P. onocrotalus), the Great White 
Heron (Ardea alba), and the now unfortunately rare Lam- 
mergeier (Gypaétus barbatus), to find and photograph the nest- 
ing sites and to procure the eggs of which incited the journeys 
of our author. Though the quest of the Lammergeier was not 
successful, the object of the expedition was achieved with the 
Pelicans and Ardea alba; while the labour, time, and exposure 
expended in finding these birds and their nests, and photograph- 
ing them as well, prove that the ornithologist must if necessary 
possess the hardihood and take some of the risks of the big- 
game hunter. To these birds is attached a narrative and 
beautiful illustration that will alone make this book of per- 
manent value in ornithological literature. Of course other 
birds were found, for the Balkans are the home of many 
Raptores, and regarding these we meet with a very interesting 
observation: ‘“‘The number of addled eggs one finds in the 
nests of the great Raptores has been, as far as my experience 
goes, very large. I don’t know how to account for it, unless it 
is that these birds, in the absence of enemies powerful enough 
to prey on them, and being but seldom molested by the in- 
habitants of these wild countries, live to a great age—in fact, 
outlive their powers of reproduction. In the course of the time 
covered by this book, for example, I have met with the following 
addled eggs of raptorial birds: one Bonelli’s Hagle’s and two 
Griffon Valtures’ in Spain, three Sea Hagles’ in Albania, and 
one Black Vulture’s in Roumania.”’ 
The nests that may be found in Hungary are well described, 
and may probably incite some ornithologists to take an early holi- 
day and make Budapest the jumping ground fora visit to a Pale- 
arctic paradise so far as birds are concerned. The entomologist, 
