. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. 272 WILD SPAIN. human life well nigh intolerable. The very toads are there as big as small footstools ; the natives yellow and sunken- eyed, with hollow cheeks and parchment skin. Here, when summer-heats provoke miasma and fetid airs, languor-laden, from the morass, the herons eon- -^TO*?. BUFF-BACKED HEKON. gregate. In June their slight nests crowd the sallow- brakes and clumps of gnarled alders and aspens islanded in marsh, and barricaded
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. 272 WILD SPAIN. human life well nigh intolerable. The very toads are there as big as small footstools ; the natives yellow and sunken- eyed, with hollow cheeks and parchment skin. Here, when summer-heats provoke miasma and fetid airs, languor-laden, from the morass, the herons eon- -^TO*?. BUFF-BACKED HEKON. gregate. In June their slight nests crowd the sallow- brakes and clumps of gnarled alders and aspens islanded in marsh, and barricaded with bramble and vicious thorny zarzas. Amidst umbrageous gloom the Night-Heron and Bittern dream away the hours of daylight, the former among the branches, the latter in thickest Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929; Buck, Walter John. London, Gurney and Jackson
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