. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 248 Unexplored Spain observing, at close quarters and still unsuspicious, these glorious game-birds,at home on their private plains. The local idea is to fire through a slit previously made in the cMeras; but some- how, when the cart stops and the game instantly rises, you find (despite care and practice) that the birds always fly in a direc- tion you cannot command or where the narrow slit forbids your covering them. Hence we adopted the plan of sliding off behind as the cart pulled up, thus firing the two barrels with perfect freedom. We have suc
. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 248 Unexplored Spain observing, at close quarters and still unsuspicious, these glorious game-birds,at home on their private plains. The local idea is to fire through a slit previously made in the cMeras; but some- how, when the cart stops and the game instantly rises, you find (despite care and practice) that the birds always fly in a direc- tion you cannot command or where the narrow slit forbids your covering them. Hence we adopted the plan of sliding off behind as the cart pulled up, thus firing the two barrels with perfect freedom. We have succeeded by this means in bringing to bag many pairs of bustard during a day's SPANISH THISTLE AND STONECHAT We now come to the system of bustard-driving, which we regard as practically the only really legitimate method of dealing with this grand game. From the end of August onwards the young bustards are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. The country is then cleared of crops, and while this precludes the birds being "done to death as in the weeks immediately preceding, yet the ubiquitous thistles (often of gigantic size, ten or twelve feet in height), charlock, and viznagas provide welcome covert for concealino- the o-uns, while the heat still renders the game somewhat more susceptible to the artifices of the fowler. This is the easiest 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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