A COMPARISON 
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field police are to be instructed concerning its enactments 
and the carrying into effect of the said enactments shall be 
made the duty both of the forestkeepers and the surveyors 
of the roads. 
Budapest, March 18, 1901. 
(Signed) 
Daranyi. 
A Comparison. 
According to the decree, which acts with the binding 
force of law, there are in Hungary 132 species of birds 
afforded protection, a number which practically contains all 
species of any account to agriculture in that country. 
The French draft suggested about 149 species of useful 
birds, including such as do not exist in Hungary at all or 
are extremely rare (Flamingo, Cursorius, Bubulcus, some 
species of Ibis etc.), and included the long-eared owl as well 
as all species of crow exclusive of the raven. 
The Convention, now figuring as Act I of 1906, in 
Schedule 1 containing useful species, includes approximately 103. 
It does not include the Little Bustard and the Bustard, which 
are undoubtedly useful, and play the part to which, at the 
International Economic Congress held at Vienna in 1873, 
Alfred Brehm, in contrast to Gloqer, attached so much 
importance (v. sub 1873) and which the French „ Chasseurs" 
(v. sub 1895) displayed so clearly and effectively. This is of 
account in Hungary too, for in the Lowlands (Alfold) the 
damage done by insects, particularly by locusts, is on the 
increase, while the Bustard and Little Bustard is a contin- 
ually disappearing quantity, the Quail is rarely heard of and 
the insectivore Gulls have been deprived of their nesting 
places. 
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