THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Vienna Exhibition in 1910. The Cretan wild goat and the Caucasian ibex 
had also been recently imported. 
Game, in fact, is more strictly preserved in Hungary than in any Euro- 
pean country except Scotland. Lynx still exist in the Carpathians, where 
some thirty or forty are annually killed. In Hungary, Galicia, and Tran- 
sylvania bears are quite common, and from 300 to 500 are killed annually. 
They are usually shot as the result of driving in the autumn, after the stag 
shooting has finished. Recently ten to twelve guns killed in three weeks 
twenty-eight bears in Transylvania, and another party shot twenty-two 
in the same season. These Austrian bears are not of large size. The 
largest known is one of 560 lb., but one of 150 kilos (300 lb.) is con- 
sidered a fine specimen. Wolves are still plentiful in Galicia, but can 
scarcely be reckoned as beasts of the chase. 
The wild boar is plentiful throughout Hungary and Galicia. The pub- 
lished returns of Hungary alone show that about 3,000 are killed annually. 
They are usually shot in beats or tracked by hounds in the snow. 
About 400,000 hares are annually shot on the low grounds, and they 
are very abundant in the neighbourhood of Vienna. 
Game birds include the bustard, whose flesh is highly valued, and the 
same interest is taken in stalking the capercaillie and the blackcock in 
spring as in Germany. The former are very abundant in the Carpathians 
and there grow to a large size. 
GREECE. There is little sport in Greece, where there are no game 
laws and every man has a gun or rifle. Fallow deer existed until 1880, 
but are now practically extinct. There are a few Capra aegagrus of a small 
race on Crete and also on Anti-Milos, where they are seldom hunted owing 
to the difficulty of landing. 
HOLLAND. Red deer are found in the province of Gelderland, mostly 
in the Royal Park at Loo, and there are a few roe in that and the neigh- 
bouring provinces. Black game are also seen here in small numbers and 
there is fair rough shooting near the coast and good wildfowling in the 
province of Zeeland and about the islands of the North Sea. 
ITALY. There are still a few isolated places in Italy where a few big 
game are to be found. Bear and wolf are extinct, but chamois, wild boar 
and deer exist on the slopes of the Alps and Apennines and among the 
woods of the Tuscan Maremma. The finest preserves are the Royal ones. 
To the late King Victor Emmanuel, a keen sportsman, must be given the 
credit of saving the true Alpine ibex or steinbok (Stambecco of the Italians) 
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