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A COMPARISON 167 
Goldfinch (1) Carduelis — Stieglitz. 
Rock Dove (3) Columba stb. — Wildtauben. 
Wild Duck (8) Anas — Enten. 
Crow (3) Corvus — Krahen. 
Hawfinch (1) Coccothraustes — Kernbeisser. 
Sparrow (2) Passer — Sperling. 
Rook (1) Corvus frugilegus — Saatkrahe. 
Dipper (1) Cinclus — Wasseramsel. 
Redbreast (1) Erithacus — Rotkehichen. 
The total of birds protected in the Federal States of 
Germany (the schedules begin in 1777 — Lippe-Detmold) 
amounts to about 152 species over against the 132 species 
protected in Hungary ; but we must not forget that it is just 
the oldest schedule which defends the wild ducks and the 
hawfinch, while Bremen protects the sparrows, several states 
the shrikes, Bavaria the kingfishers and all the jays, while 
both buzzards and all species of crow are afforded protecfion. 
The falcons are not protected by a single one and owe their 
safety to the Imperial Act of 1888. So from the 150 species 
protected in Germany we must subtract 24 species that are 
unprotected ; and then we shall find that Hungary protects 
six more such birds as deserve protection. 
This will show us that IgnAcz Daranvi's intuition and 
energy succeeded in doing justice to all the conditions of 
bird-protection and made progress feasible. The actual car- 
rying out of the same depends on the officials but more 
particularly on society. 
And still all these facts, which excite the envy of foreign 
countries, do not afford complete satisfaction, for the destruct- 
ion in Italy and indeed in the South generally still goes on 
uninterruptedly ; and the number of birds is so strikingly on 
the decrease that Great Britain, otherwise so obstinate in 
clinging to her splendid isolation", started the cry asking, 
