Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration

xxxv. Lämmergeyer--a sketch from life in the Sierra

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Bermeja _To face_ 309

Our quarters at Guentar del Rio 312

Ibex-head--Sierra de Gredos 319

xxxvi. Vineyard and gateway _To face_ 325

Vines in March (Jerez) 326

xxxvii. In a Jerez Bodega _To face_ 328

xxxviii. Irrigation by the _noria_, or water-wheel _To face_ 334

A vineyard at Jerez 336

Great Bustards 337 and 340

Little Bustards--May 345

xxxix. A Spanish jungle--The Angosturas _To face_ 348

Fishing-boats 349

xl. Palacio de Doñana _To face_ 350

xli. Breakfast-time--Doñana _To face_ 352

A royal head--Doñana 354

Dead Lynx 355

Group of forest-guards 357

Pannier-pony and game 358

Spanish Red Deer--a mountain-head from Morena 360 and 430

---- a stag of thirteen points 363

xlii. Spanish wildfowlers approaching duck with _cabresto_ ponies _To face_ 365

xliii. A shot in the open (Red Deer) _To face_ 367

Wild Boar--an old tusker 368

xliv. Salavar--a sketch in a Spanish _Mancha_ _To face_ 369

xlv. Wildfowling with _cabrestos_--

---- ---- No. 1. The approach _To face_ 372

xlvi. ---- ---- No. 2. The shot _To face_ 374

xlviii. ---- ---- No. 3. The result _To face_ 381

"_Anseres son!_" 377

Greylag Geese flighting--daybreak 378

xlvii. Grey Geese and Wigeon--midday _To face_ 378

Marsh-Harrier (young) 380

xlix. "The farewell shot" _To face_ 382

Mallards 387

Grey Geese 390 and 391

l. Redshanks (101 and) _To face_ 393

Stilts 396 and 404

Little Gull and Tern 398

li. "A Hundred at a Shot--now or never!" _To face_ 400

"The Biter and the Bit" (Harrier and Teal) 401

lii. La Marismilla--a shooting morning _To face_ 405

Spanish guns 411

"The eleven-pointer" (Red Deer) 413

A fifteen-pointer (Red Deer) 414

"Dropped in his tracks" (Wild Boar) 416

Stork's nest--The Banderas, Seville 422

---- ---- on straw-stack 459

Spanish Lynx 436

Spanish Ibex--Five-year-old Rams 440

WILD SPAIN.

(ESPAÑA AGRESTE.)