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ous dispersing specimens. So, the southernmost known area of the elk in Poland lays between Katowice and Krakow (BRIEDERMANN 1982) (see Fig. 1). Most probably the specimens observed between Zvolen and Poprad in Czechoslovakia reached there from that same population. Northeast to the Carpathian Basin the nearest known specimens were found north of the Dniester river in the USSR. West of Hungary and the Morava river a western and a south-western stock seems to exist, or rather, the movements of the migrating populations are pronounced. Numerous observations show the presence of elk there. The southernmost of these latter are the ones found in the Isar valley near MUnnich, and another one observed west of Vienna in the Danube valley (see Flg. 1). Fig. 1. Map of elk distribution in Central and East Europe. Combined from maps published by BRIEDERMAN (1982) and HEPTNER &al. (1966). All records are till 1966 and 1975, except those in Hungary. n

n^_^^ = distributional borders of permanent populations ***•- = distribution of dispersing animals in parts of Europe other than Hungary * = lines with arrows indicate the movements of specimens found in Hungary; numbers indicate the sites of fatalities; 1= Csillaghegy, Budapest; 2= Gyümölcsény; 3= Ostoros, Eger; 4= Tiszafüred. New records in Hungary The first two young bulls of the recently known individuals In Hungary were seen for the first time in the Hortobágy area on 2 July, 1979 (see Fig. 1). They soon disappeared from there and were spotted later at Martfű, Tiszaföldvár and Szolnok (all these localities at the Tisza river), then