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CHAP. PAGE
I. Unexplored Spain: Introductory 1
II. " " " (Continued) 17
III. The Coto DoÑana: Our Historic Hunting-Ground (A Foreword
by Sir Maurice de Bunsen, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., British
Ambassador at Madrid)
30
IV. The Coto DoÑana: Notes on its Physical Formation, Fauna, and Red Deer 35
V. Andalucia and its Big Game: Still-Hunting 54
VI. " " "Wild-Boar 70
VII. “Our Lady of the Dew”: The Pilgrimage to the Shrine Of Nuestra SeÑora del RocÍo 82
VIII. The Marismas of Guadalquivir 88
IX. Wildfowl-Shooting in the Marismas 105
X. Wild-Geese in Spain: Their Species, Haunts, and Habits 114
XI. Wild-Geese on the Sand-Hills 125
XII. Some Records in Spanish Wildfowling 133
XIII. The Spanish Ibex 139
XIV. Sierra MorÉna: Ibex 147
XV. " "Red Deer and Boar 158
XVI. Pernales 174
XVII. La Mancha 183
XVIII. The Spanish Bull-Fight 192
XIX. The Spanish Fighting-Bull 200
XX. Sierra de GrÉdos 208
XXI. " ": Ibex-Hunting 216
XXII. An Abandoned Province: Estremadura 225
XXIII. Las Hurdes (Estremadura) and the Savage Tribes that inhabit them 234
Illustrations in the Text
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Lammergeyer (GypaËtus barbatus) 3
Woodchat Shrike (Lanius pomeranus) 7
Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) 9
Wooden Plough-share 12
Cetti’s Warbler (Sylvia cettii) 14
Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) 16
Fantail Warbler (Cisticola cursitans) 17
Rock-Thrush (Petrocincla saxatilis) 18
A Village Posada 20
Serin (Serinus hortulanus) 23
Bonelli’s Eagle (Aquila bonellii) 26
Black Vulture (Vultur monachus) 27
White-Faced Duck (Erismatura leucocephala) 28
Spanish Imperial Eagle 31
Spanish Lynx 33
Greenshank (Totanus canescens) 34
Sketch-Map of Delta of Guadalquivir 35
Marsh-Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) 38
“Silent Songsters” 39
Blackstart (Ruticilla titys) 39
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Oxylophus glandarius) 41
“Globe-Spanners” 42
“Confidence” 43
Abnormal Cast Antler 44
Egret 45
“Suspicion” 49
Altabaca (Scrofularia) 51
Tomillo de Arena 51
“What’s This?” 52
Antlers 56
Stag “taking the Wind” 57
Sylvia melanocephala 60
Reed-Climbers 61
Great Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis) 62
Spanish Green Woodpecker (Gecinus sharpei) 63
Tarantula 64
Stag—as he fell 67
Hoopoes at Jerez, March 19, 1910 69
“Room for Two” 71
Wild-Boar—at bay 73
Wild-Boar—“Bolted past” 79
Wild-Boar 81
Praying Mantis 87
Avocet 88
Samphire 90
Greylag Geese 92
White-Eyed Pochard (Fuligula nyroca) 94
“Flamingoes over” 95
Pochard (Fuligula ferina) 96
Flight of Flamingoes 97
Wild-Geese alighting 98
Wildfowl in the Marisma 101
Flamingoes 102
Stilt 105
Godwits 113
Root of Spear-Grass 115
System of driving Wild-Geese 117
Shelters for driving Wild-Geese 118
Godwits 124
Wild-Geese alighting on Sand-Hills 129
Wild-Geese 133
Godwits 134
Sketch-Map of the NuclÉo Central of GrÉdos 141
Grey Shrike 162
Azure-Winged Magpie 163
Sardinian Warbler 164
Griffon Vulture 166
Pair of Antlers 167
Stag—“picking his way up a Rock-Staircase” 168
“The Hart bounced, full-broadside, over the Pass” 169
Pernales 175
Sparrow-Owls (Athene noctua) and Moths 182
Hoopoes 183
Woodchat Shrike and its “Shambles” 184
Desert-loving Wheatears 185
Red-crested Pochard (Fuligula rufila) 186
Red-crested Pochards 190
“Minor Game” 210
Southern Grey Shrike 212
Griffon Vulture and Nest 215
“The Way of an Eagle in the Air” (Lammergeyer) 218
Black Vulture (Vultur monachus) 222
Roller (Coracias garrula) 226
Trujillo 227
“Scavengers” 228
Wolf-proof Dog-Collar 231
Woodlark 232
Sketch-Map of Las Hurdes 234
White Wagtail 238
Wolf-proof Sheepfold 239
The Great Bustard 243
Well on Andalucian Plain 244
Calandra Lark 246
Spanish Thistle and Stonechat 248
Bustards—“Swerve aside” 252
Bustards passing full broadside 254
Imperial Eagle—“Hurtling through Space” 258
Draw-Well with Cross-Bar 259
Hechando la Rueda 260
Tail-Feathers of Great Bustard 261
Little Bustard 263
Stilts in the Marisma 265
Flamingoes 266
Stilts disturbed at Nesting-Place 268
Flamingoes and their Nests 269
Flight of Flamingoes 270-1
Head of Flamingo 273
Little Gull and Tern 274
Flamingoes 277
“The Camels a-coming” 281
Chamois 283
A Chamois Drive—Picos de Europa 288
Hoopoe 293
Lammergeyer (GypaËtus barbatus) 303
“Unemployed”: Bee-eaters on a Wet Morning 311
Woodlark (Alauda arborea) 313
Lammergeyer 314
Soaring Vulture 315
Golden Eagle Hunting 317
Rock-Thrush 318
Spanish Sparrow 320
Imperial Eagle Passing Overhead 342
PinsÁpo Pine (Abies pinsapo) 347
Rock-Bunting (Emberiza cia) 348
PinsÁpo Pines 350
Crossbill 351
Lammergeyer Overhead 353
Golden Eagle Hunting 354
Vultures 356
Lammergeyer entering Eyrie 358
Lammergeyer 361
Griffon Vultures 368
Reed-Bunting 378
Grey Plover 381
Head of Crested Coot 384
Avocets Feeding 385
White-Faced Duck (Erismatura leucocephala) 387
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) 389
Grey Plovers 390
Orphean Warbler 391
Savi’s Warbler (Sylvia savii) 393
Unknown Insect 394
Bonelli’s Eagles 395
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Oxylophus glandarius) 400
Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) 402

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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