. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ^ walls, ostensibly to occupy themselves withiron and copper tinkery, kettle-making, and the like. Someof the women of these Bohemians are striking enough intheir gypsy-beauty; the same faces are seen in successiveyears, so their journeyings are to some extent methodical. One meets these nomad bands all over rural Spain,laboriously trekking axle-deep, across dusky-brownplain or lonely waste of brushwood and palmetto—pic-turesque objects—indeed the only element of life and colouramidst these desolate s
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ^ walls, ostensibly to occupy themselves withiron and copper tinkery, kettle-making, and the like. Someof the women of these Bohemians are striking enough intheir gypsy-beauty; the same faces are seen in successiveyears, so their journeyings are to some extent methodical. One meets these nomad bands all over rural Spain,laboriously trekking axle-deep, across dusky-brownplain or lonely waste of brushwood and palmetto—pic-turesque objects—indeed the only element of life and colouramidst these desolate \\J m- GYPSY DANCE. 293 CHAPTER SEARCH OF THE LAMMERGEYEE. A WINTKR RIDE IN THE SIERRAS. To the Lammergeyer tradition has assigned some roman-tic attributes, and a character of wondrous dash and is the bird that is credited with feats of hurhnghunters from perilous positions down crag or crevass,carrying off children to its eyrie, and kidnapping un-guarded babes. Even Dr. Bree, in his Birds of Europe,while doubting that it habitually assails grown-up people,gravely asserts that a pair of these birds will not hesitateto attack a man whom they have caught at a disadvan-tage ; while one will venture, single-handed, an onslaughton two hunters who are asleep. Some naturalists nowseem inclined to go to the other extreme, and to regardthe Lammergeyer as merely a huge Neophron. No doubt the great size and weird, dragon-like appear-ance of the Gypaetus have tended to promote exaggeration,while its rarity and remote haunts have made it no easysubject to study, and few have fo
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