. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . of the Grey Plovers were superb specimens inperfect black-and-white plumage, and the Curlew-Sand-pipers in richest rufous summer-dress. Unfortunately, theattractions of the Great Bustard, several of which were also. GREY PLOVERS—SUMMER-PLUMAGE. in sight, proved irresistible: but I had the satisfaction ofriding home that evening with my first bustard slung tothe alforjas. The next day, as is often the case, hardly apassage-bird was to be seen, and my bag only contained apair of Grey Phalaropes, and a f
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . of the Grey Plovers were superb specimens inperfect black-and-white plumage, and the Curlew-Sand-pipers in richest rufous summer-dress. Unfortunately, theattractions of the Great Bustard, several of which were also. GREY PLOVERS—SUMMER-PLUMAGE. in sight, proved irresistible: but I had the satisfaction ofriding home that evening with my first bustard slung tothe alforjas. The next day, as is often the case, hardly apassage-bird was to be seen, and my bag only contained apair of Grey Phalaropes, and a female Montagus 9th, 1883.—The effects of dawn over the vastdesolations of the marisma were specially beautiful thismorning. Before sunrise the distant peaks of the Ser-rania de Eonda (seventy miles away) lay flooded in ablood-red light, and looking quite twice their usual an hour later the mountains sank back in a goldenglow, and long before mid-day were invisible through the 90 WILD SPAIN. quivering heat-haze and the atmospheric fantasies of in-finite space. Amid a chaotic confusion of mirage-effects,we rode out across the level plain—at first across dry mud-flats, partly carpeted with a dwarf scrub of marsh-plants,in places bare and naked, the sun-scorched surface crac
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