. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . yards, the biiUet entering his chest, and lodgingnear the root of the tail almost undamaged, after traversing the wholeof the animals vitals. For all Spanish large game, the 12-boreParadox, weighing 7^ lbs., and burning 3i drs. of powder, is anadmirable weapon, and, except for ibex and deer-stalking in the higherCordilleras, where very long shots may be necessary, it almost takesthe place of the heavier express rifle. 416 WILD SPAIN. Yo D. Carlos Fernandez Brescaglia, Decano de los cazadores de estaci
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . yards, the biiUet entering his chest, and lodgingnear the root of the tail almost undamaged, after traversing the wholeof the animals vitals. For all Spanish large game, the 12-boreParadox, weighing 7^ lbs., and burning 3i drs. of powder, is anadmirable weapon, and, except for ibex and deer-stalking in the higherCordilleras, where very long shots may be necessary, it almost takesthe place of the heavier express rifle. 416 WILD SPAIN. Yo D. Carlos Fernandez Brescaglia, Decano de los cazadores de estaciudad suficientemente autorizado expido el presente Diploma para que el referido Don A B C piieda ixsar libremente el mencionado distintivo que debe ser en un todo conforme al modeloadjunto. Dado en San Lucar de Barrameda el 17 de Enero de 1878. El Decano,(Signed) Carlos Fernandez Brescaglia. El Secretario,(Signed) Domingo L. de Yillegas. The insignia referred to represent a couple of stagsantlers, locked in mortal combat, with the legend :— Ab istis ventis liberet te Deus si maritus DROPPED IN HIS TRACKS. 417 CHAPTER IN THE MARSHES. Snipe-shooting. Spanish, Agacliona, , Narceja. The Peninsula has always been famous for its snipe-shooting, but the sport differs in some ways from thatpractised on British marsh or moor. The snipe in Spaindoes not, as a rule, frequent rushes or other covert. TheSpanish marshes in winter afford scant covert of any kind ;hence the snipe is proportionately wilder. Piarely does thelong-bill spring at close range : the bulk of the bag mustbe cut down at such distances that a snipe-shooter at homewould very probably decline the offer—without there are exceptions to this. In certain localities,particularly in Portugal, -\ve have enjoyed excellent snipe-shooting on wide-spread expanses of rushy marsh andunder home conditions. The rice-stubbles also, in districtswhere rice is grown, afford perhaps the f
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