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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ag waspossessed by them, and we examined several of theirabodes. They were already beginning to build : the rem-nants of last years structures being now (January 22nd)supplemented by fresh live branches of oak and olive, andbig claws-full of grass torn up by the roots. Twere a long tale to tell of fruitless efforts : we never somuch as saw our coveted prize hereabouts, and at lengthwe left the kindly farmers house. The pretty Anita whohad waited on us, and who, though she never sat down inher masters presence, joined freely in the conversation,had, we observed, donned quite an extra stratum of jKrudredamonr, or some such compound, upon her fair browncheeks to bid adios to the mad Ingles; but neither she norhearty Francisco would hear of accepting any return forall the trouble of our visit. \Ye had an idea, in the formercase, that coquetry might have had something to do with IN SEAKCH OF THE LAMMERGEYER. 303 Anitas refusal, but time forbade the solution of thequestion. iji?/ ■4 \rrr.
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GRIFFOX VULTURE. (A sketch in the Siena.) Further explorations had no better result: in the forestsof the Sierra de la Jarda were a good many roe and some 304 WILD SPAIN. pig, but we did not care to risk the uncertainty of a hatulaall alone. Partridge are very scarce on all these hills, andno wonder, since every farmer keeps his pair of call-birds(reclamos). We had gently hinted to Francisco the unwisdomof shooting partridges to decoys in spring; but he insistedit did no harm, since lie only sJiot the cocks ! A pair or twoof partridges at long intervals were all we saw (two orthree brace a day was the utmost we could bag as a rule),and these, with a few hares and a chance rabbit, are all thesmall game of the sierra. In the marshy valleys wereflights of peewits (January), and the woods swarmed withthrushes, blackbirds, chaffinches, green and brown linnets,robins, a few redwings, and other common species. Astriking bird among the dense scrub on the hillsides wasthe little Dartford warbl

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