head (numbered 6,111), from the Carpathian Mountains, was shown by Baron Donald Schönberg. It measured 12·6 inches along the curve, 4·13 inches girth at base, with a spread of 7·08 inches. Herr A. Huter showed a white-headed chamois.
The best collection of roe heads was shown by Count Trautmansdorff, and contained many of great size and abnormal development. The first prize for roe was awarded to Count Mycielski for a head 12·2 inches high, 7·87 inches round burr and 7·08 inches in spread.
Bears are still not uncommon in parts of Hungary and Galicia, as well as in Bosnia and Croatia, but seem to be nearly extinct in Austria proper, though there are still a few left in the Dolomite Alps of South Tyrol, The largest bear in the exhibition is one sent by Count Potocki, which is stuffed in an erect attitude and stands 7½ feet high. From the point of the nose to the eye this bear measures 6·03 inches. Another fine one, killed in Galicia by Dr. Boujinsky, has a dark, almost black, fur.
The prize for a wild boar goes to the Emperor of Austria for a splendid head with tusks 13·6 inches in length. A superb boar shown by Freiherr Gotz Akocin seems to be of stouter build, and to carry longer tusks and a much thicker coat of bristles, than the boars of the Ardennes, but this, no doubt, is accounted for by better feeding. It would be interesting to know the weight attained by the wild boars in Hungary and whether they ever equal those of the Caucasus, which are said to attain 600 pounds. The heaviest that I have killed in Belgium, Turkey and Asia Minor did not attain half this weight.
