. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. 258 WILD SPAIN. placed on bushes rather than trees, resemble a Jar's, slightly built of sticks exteriorly, and completed with green moss, dry grass, etc., and contain five or six eggs. Half- a-dozen nests may often be found within a hundred yards. An active, sprightly bird, exclusively confined to the Spanish Peninsula. The Jay, though common hi the mountain-forests, and in Portugal, is not seen on the South-Spanish plains; but the Magpie ab
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. 258 WILD SPAIN. placed on bushes rather than trees, resemble a Jar's, slightly built of sticks exteriorly, and completed with green moss, dry grass, etc., and contain five or six eggs. Half- a-dozen nests may often be found within a hundred yards. An active, sprightly bird, exclusively confined to the Spanish Peninsula. The Jay, though common hi the mountain-forests, and in Portugal, is not seen on the South-Spanish plains; but the Magpie absolutely swarms. During lunch one. AZURE-WINGED MAGPIES. day I counted upwards of seventy in sight at a time, and from one spot. A rushy glade before us was dotted all over with them; their pied breasts surmounted nearly every bush. Further away, I also counted during the half-hour's halt (without including such small fry as Kestrels, etc.) no less than twenty-one large birds of prey several Kites of both kinds, a soaring Buzzard or two, Marsh- and Montagu's Harriers, and at least a pair of 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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