. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. Sketches of Spanish Bird-Life 395 sketch and anotlier inserted at p. 26. Her white breast shone in the sun with a satin-like sheen. Within sight (though fifteen miles away) is another eyrie of this species—the alternative nests not ten feet apart, merely a projecting buttress of rock separating the two vertical fissures in which they rest. This site is in a rock-stack standing out from the wooded slope of the sierra. The two eggs, slightly blotched with red, were laid in February. The rough bush-clad hills above our cliff are preserved, and present
. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. Sketches of Spanish Bird-Life 395 sketch and anotlier inserted at p. 26. Her white breast shone in the sun with a satin-like sheen. Within sight (though fifteen miles away) is another eyrie of this species—the alternative nests not ten feet apart, merely a projecting buttress of rock separating the two vertical fissures in which they rest. This site is in a rock-stack standing out from the wooded slope of the sierra. The two eggs, slightly blotched with red, were laid in February. The rough bush-clad hills above our cliff are preserved, and presently meeting the game- keeper, we tried—(that daily toll of four partridges plus sundry rabbits had got on our consciences !)—to put in a word for our eagle-friends, assuring him they did him service by destroying snakes and big lizards (which they don't). " Si, senor, he agreed, adding, " y los in- sectos !" Farther along the cliff we found two nests of neophron, each containing two very hand- some eggs. This bird makes a comfortable home, the founda- tion being of sticks, but with a warmly lined central saucer, be- decked with old bones, snakes' vertebrae, rabbit-skulls, and similar ornaments. The nests were on overhung shelves of the vertical crag, and (like those of the eagles) only accessible by rope. There lay a rat in one—and rather " ; Remaining denizens of these crags we can but briefly name. A pair of eagle-owls had three young (fully fledged by June 10) in a deep rock-fissure; there were also ravens, many lesser kestrels, and a colony of genets. III. Oak-Wood and Sckub Cistus and tree-heath, genista and purple heather that brushes your shoulder as you ride, studded with groves of. BONELLI'S EAGLES SOAEING AROUND EYEIE Note white patch in centre of back, between the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these i
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