THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Wild boar and roe are numerous between the Gulf of Ismidt and the 
Black Sea. Large numbers of boar are killed on the ground preserved 
by Cherif Pasha at Chaoush Chiftick in the Gulf of Ismidt. 
The Servian peasant is not much addicted to the chase, so there are 
still a certain number of boar and roe where covert exists in that country. 
The same animals are also fairly numerous in Southern Albania. 
Sportsmen make frequent raids on the game in winter, confining their 
operations to Alessio and Butrinto opposite Corfu ; but the whole country 
adjoining the seaboard has a fair amount of game, especially about the 
mouths of the rivers and along the course of the Skumbi to Elbassan. 
BULGARIA. There are a few small bears in the mountains of Bulgaria, 
whilst boars and red deer are found close to Sofia and in the mountains 
near the Constantinople Road as far as Zlatista. 
CYPRUS. A small herd, numbering roughly about 200, of the Cyprian 
wild sheep ( Ovis ophion ) still exists in this island. They live in the woods 
near the summit of the Troodos mountains, and special permission is 
required to shoot them. These sheep live in small herds of ten to twenty 
and are, like the moufflon, very difficult to stalk. 
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