Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

212 Phylum Vertebrata it gradually became possible to treat it as a breeding species in Hungary. The most recent record is from Sarród by Lake Fertő (HADARICS et al. 1993c). Occurrences in the Hanság were recorded by ARISZTID MOSANSKY (1964; see also STUDINKA 1935b; TÖMÖSVÁRY and FÜLÖP 1977). The scarlet rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) reached the Carpathian Basin in the second half of the 20th century and has since occurred from time to time. The first observation in the West Hungarian border region was at Fertőrákos on July 24, 1990, when SÁNDOR MOGYORÓSI and colleagues caught a mature female (see SZINAI 1995). It has occurred several times since (MME NOMENCLATOR BIZOTTSÁG 1998b). The first Hungarian occurrence of the citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) was in 1992 (HADARICS et al. 1992a). The Rák Brook, with its somewhat greater flow, is the only stream in the Sopron Hills able to support breeding by the dipper (Cinclus cinclus), but there are few suitable nesting sites. However, several birds were observed by the stream in November 1982 and two of them were ringed (ZATYKÓ 1984). The Hungarian stock of the dipper was not more than 25 pairs in 1985, of which a pair each bred in the Sopron Hills and Kőszeg Hills (BECHTOLD 1979; HORVÁTH 1985; NÉMETH 1998). It was probably birds from the Kőszeg Hills that moved to the banks of the Gyöngyös Brook at Perint in central Szombathely, where TIBOR KELEMEN observed them on December 26, 1986. Later this specimen was ringed. It was still at Perint on January 20 and February 15, 1987 (VARGA 1988). On July 24, 1997, a bird leading fledglings was observed on the Gyöngyös Brook below Hámor (NÉMETH 2000). A pair has bred in the area again since 1999 (LEPOLD 2000b). Several authors have discussed changes in population movements of species, i.e. aspects of the avifauna of a specific area (BERNRIEDER 1938 and 1942; BITTERA 1912a; CSÖRGEY 1902; DABASY-FROMM 1929 and 1934; FARAGÓ 1980a, 1980b, 1980c, 1981a, 1983, 1987, 1989 and 1990; FODOR 1975; GÁRDONYI 1957; GERGYE 1960,1966 and 1967b; GRESCHNIK 1909; GYURÁCZ 1992b; KABÁCZY 1930; MIKOLÁS 1930). Some interesting information has appeared on the sex ratios of certain birds species. Those of blackbird flocks (Turdus merula) wintering in Sopron and Brennbergbánya were given by EGON SCHMIDT (1984). These studies were continued by SÁNDOR MOGYORÓSI (1986c and 1989b). Faunistic data on the region appear also in some taxonomic works (KLEINER 1935, 1939a, 1939b, 1939c and 1942; KEVE-KLEINER 1943b; KEVE and PÁTKAI 1955, 1961 and 1964; MADARÁSZ 1899a and 1899b; PÁTKAI 1939 and 1947a; Szijj 1957a and 1957b). Some authors have reported on special behaviour of birds (UITZ 1924; Kiss 1926; BREUER 1928f; MIKOLÁS 1928C; TARJÁN 1944). Others go into breeding, nesting, wintering, food-gathering and feeding behaviour, or on enemies (LAKATOS 1901 and 1904; MIKOLÁS 1928b; KÁRPÁTI 1978d; BALOGH and VARGA 1984; TRASER 1984a, 1984b and 1984c; VARGA 1985a, 1985b and 1987c; ANDRÉSI 1985; FARAGÓ 1986; METZL 1986; PELLENGÉR and JÁNOSKA 1987; HADARICS 1992a and 1992b; FÜLÖP 1994; MOGYORÓSI 1994b; MOGYORÓSI and MOLNÁR 1994). Some publications contain scattered ornithological data