. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ri. i* WILDFOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS. 381 golden plovers, redshanks, dunlins and Kentish plovers ;on several occasions, chattering packs of stilts were metwith, and on January 30th a large flock of avocets werefeeding on the slobby mud-flats—these the pateros assuredus had just arrived, which probably was the case. Once,by night, we recognized the well-known note of the green-shank, and at intervals a green sandpiper would springfrom some muddy pool. Beyond the fringe of rushesstood sedate herons; her
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ri. i* WILDFOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS. 381 golden plovers, redshanks, dunlins and Kentish plovers ;on several occasions, chattering packs of stilts were metwith, and on January 30th a large flock of avocets werefeeding on the slobby mud-flats—these the pateros assuredus had just arrived, which probably was the case. Once,by night, we recognized the well-known note of the green-shank, and at intervals a green sandpiper would springfrom some muddy pool. Beyond the fringe of rushesstood sedate herons; here and there a party of storks, andfurther out still, the flamingoes, whose rosy ranks imparta thoroughly southern character to the scene. There was, therefore, no lack of l)ird-life, though manyof the more interesting species were gone. Amidst thefeathered population, apparently unnoticing and unnoticedby all, the Marsh-Harriers ceaselessly wheel and drift. Afterwatching them for hours we have never seen them take abird on the wing, or pursue anything at all, unlesswounded. Now and then a h
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