This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...a warning respecting our great Hungarian plains. The Hungarian Lowlands (Alfold) have, in point of agriculture, undergone radical changes, of late quails have become very scarce, and we only occasionally come across a specimen of the once common breed of Bustard, the Little Bustard (Otis Tetrax). The draining ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...a warning respecting our great Hungarian plains. The Hungarian Lowlands (Alfold) have, in point of agriculture, undergone radical changes, of late quails have become very scarce, and we only occasionally come across a specimen of the once common breed of Bustard, the Little Bustard (Otis Tetrax). The draining of the country has resulted in the disappearance of the grasshopper-eating gulls too. On the other hand locust-plagues are becoming more frequent: we do not mean the historical breed but the much smaller Stauronotus maroccanus, i. e. the grasshopper of Morocco; and this has become a danger. The further progress of the Convention. Re optima gesta," the delegates dispersed, each taking a copy of the draft of the Convention as accepted to his respective Government, with the minutes of the session and the appendices. And then began the rolling of the rock of Sisyphus to the top of the hill, i. e. of course, to the top, if successful. Those States or rather Governments which did not wish to participate, withdrew: they were Great Britain, Holland and Russia. They could do so, seeing that the fact that their delegates had signed the minutes on June 29, 1895 did not bind the States and Governments to anything, as the protocol distinctly says that the draft shall be submitted to the approval of the Governments, i. e. the final decision was reserved. Italy lost no time in declaring1 that, for the reasons 1895. adduced by her delegate, Prof. Giqlioli, acting under instructions, first at the preliminary conference at Berlin and then at Paris, she could not accept the draft. There is no doubt that the withdrawal of Italy was a matter of great significance, seeing that, in that country, useful birds were not only not protected but were liable, and...
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