. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . S*.|{t,. bulrush within ten yards of the boat. A group of Avocetsslept standing, each on one leg, on a dry point; and furtheraway, two Spoonbills were busy sifting the soft mud withcurious revolving gait. Coots and Grebes {Podicipes Jiu/ri-collis) kept dodging in and out among the flags and aquaticplants, and a Marsh-Harrier, whose mate was sitting in anadjoining cane-brake, soared in the background. This isnot counting the commoner kinds, nor several others which 78 WILD SPAIN. we afterwards observed
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . S*.|{t,. bulrush within ten yards of the boat. A group of Avocetsslept standing, each on one leg, on a dry point; and furtheraway, two Spoonbills were busy sifting the soft mud withcurious revolving gait. Coots and Grebes {Podicipes Jiu/ri-collis) kept dodging in and out among the flags and aquaticplants, and a Marsh-Harrier, whose mate was sitting in anadjoining cane-brake, soared in the background. This isnot counting the commoner kinds, nor several others which 78 WILD SPAIN. we afterwards observed close by : the above were all insif^ht, mostly in shot, at one spot. The Coots and Mallards have eggs in March, the PurpleHeron early in April: on the 9th we found the first nest,merely an armful of the long green reeds bent down, andcontaining one blue egg. The other herons nest very late—in June. One other bird-group remains to be briefly mentioned—the Lavuuc. In so congenial a resort they are, of course,in force: but in early April few gulls, beyond the Britishspecies, are noticeable*—of
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