. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 42 Unexplored Spain Australia and New Zealand, and are now returning to their summer lireeding-grounds in farthest Siberia, beyond the Yenisei. Thus some morning in early May one sees the marismas filled with godwits and knots, curlew-sandpipers and grey plovers, all in their glorious summer-plumage. But these only tarry here a few days. A short week before they had thronged the shores of the southern hemisphere—far beyond the zodiac of Capricorn. A Aveek hence and they are at home in the Arctic. Andalucia possesses a feathered census that approach
. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 42 Unexplored Spain Australia and New Zealand, and are now returning to their summer lireeding-grounds in farthest Siberia, beyond the Yenisei. Thus some morning in early May one sees the marismas filled with godwits and knots, curlew-sandpipers and grey plovers, all in their glorious summer-plumage. But these only tarry here a few days. A short week before they had thronged the shores of the southern hemisphere—far beyond the zodiac of Capricorn. A Aveek hence and they are at home in the Arctic. Andalucia possesses a feathered census that approaches 400 species; but of these hardly a score are permanently resident throughout the /U. "GLOBE-SPANNERS" Rest twelve hours in Spain on the jouvney—Australia to Siberia. Four-footed creatures are less difficult of diagnosis than are birds. By nature less mobile, they are infinitely less numerous specifically. Eelatively the Spanish census is long, and includes, locally, quite a number of interesting beasts that are " lumped together" as Alimanas—to wit, lynxes, wild-cats, genets, mon- goose, foxes, otters, badgers, of which we treat separately. The two chief game-animals of the Goto Dofiana are the red deer and the wild-boar. These two we here examine from the sportsman's point of view as much as from that of the naturalist. The Spanish red deer are specifically identical with those of Scotland and the rest of Europe, and are distributed over the whole southern half of the Iberian Peninsula—say south of a line drawn through Madrid. Their haunts, as a rule, are restricted to the mountain-ranges—especially the Sierra Morena, where they to. 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. joint author. London, E. Arnold
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