Chapter II: Part III

i. Spring-notes in Navarre 454

ii. Supplementary notes on birds (Southern Spain) 457

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE NO. PAGE

i. Map of Spain and Portugal _Frontispiece_

An Andaluz 3

A Granadino 4

Basque peasant 5

ii. Relics of the Moors--Ruins of the Watch-tower of Melgarejo _To face_ 6

Fair Sevillanas 8

A _choza:_ the home of the Andalucian peasant 13

iii. Pair of Civil Guards--Jerez _To face_ 14

A water-seller 18

iv. Daughters of Andalucia _To face_ 19

Dancers with castanets 20

A village _posada_ 21

"Furniture" 25

Our quarters in the Sierra 26

A straight charge (wild boar) 30

v. "That old tusker" (wild boar) _To face_ 31

A mule with trappings 32

vi. Bustards on the barrens--winter;--a first shade of suspicion _To face_ 33

vii. Watering the cattle--summer-time _To face_ 35

Great Bustard--_echando la rueda_ 39

viii. Bustard-driving--the pack come "well in" _To face_ 40

Great Bustards--an April dawn 43

ix. " " --among the spring-corn _To face_ 48

The Bustard-shooter--triumph! 51

x. Ancient draw-well on the plains _To face_ 52

xi. Bulls on the plains _To face_ 57

xii. The morn of the Fight--Bulls in the _toril_ (Miura's breed) _To face_ 61

xiii. The _Encierro_ _To face_ 65

A Bull-fighter 66

A Matador 68

Fishing-boat on the Guadalquivir 78

Flamingoes 74, 102 and 115

Avocets 77, 82 and 87

Stilts 70, 86 and 92

xiv. Booted Eagle _To face_ 81

xv. Pintailed Sand-Grouse _To face_ 85

Grey Plovers--summer-plumage 89

xvi. The Spanish Wild Camels--our first sight of a couple in the marisma _To face_ 94

xvii. Wild Camels--seen through the binoculars _To face_ 98

Flamingoes on feed 104

A right-and-left at Flamingoes 106

Spanish Lynx 107

A toilet in the wilderness (Flamingoes) 109

Flamingoes and nests 111

xviii. Flamingoes on their nests _To face_ 112

Civil Guards--a sketch from life 121

Draw-well at the Zumajo, near Jerez 127

Spanish Ibex, Old Ram--Sierra de Gredos 131

---- ---- ---- Sierra Nevada 133, 135, and 170

xix. On the crags of Almanzór (Ibex) _To face_ 137

Old olive-trees near Talavera 139

xx. Ibex-hunting--a sketch in the Sierra de Gredos _To face_ 141

Our first old Ram 145

xxi. Ibex-hunting--the two old Rams at the "Cannon-Rock" _To face_ 148

The peaks of Gredos 149

xxii. Our camp on the Riscos de Valderejo _To face_ 152

Ibex-hunters of Gredos--a sketch by the camp-fire 154

Ibex, female--Riscos de Valderejo 155

---- ---- Bermeja 158

xxiii. Ibex-hunting--a sketch in the Sierra Bermeja _To face_ 161

Forest Ibex, old Ram--Bermeja 164

Trout 175, 182, and 186

Chamois 179 and 442

Spanish Imperial Eagle 190, 198, and 219

---- ---- (Spotted stage) 193

---- ---- The Eagle's swoop 262

Tawny Eagle 195

Black Vulture 201 and 202

At roost--Serpent-Eagles 204

xxiv. A Vulture's banquet _To face_ 206

Griffon Vulture and nest--Puerta de Palomas 208

Strange neighbours (Vultures and Storks) 209

xxv. "Where the carcase is" _To face_ 213

Bonelli's Eagle (adult) 217 and 383

xxvi. Ploughing with oxen _To face_ 221

Wooden ploughshare 224

xxvii. The harvest-field _To face_ 225

xxviii. Threshing corn with mares _To face_ 226

xxix. Winnowing _To face_ 228

"Waiting for death" (old olive-trees) 232

xxx. Kites and Marsh-Harriers _To face_ 242

xxxi. Sand-dunes and _Corrales_ of Doñana _To face_ 245

Hoopoes 248

A serenade (Red-leg Partridge) 251

Azure-winged Magpies 258

Eyed Lizard and Serpent-Eagle 260

Black Stork 265

xxxii. Mallards and Ferruginous Ducks--Alamillo _To face_ 268

xxxiii. White-fronted Ducks--Santolalla _To face_ 270

Buff-backed Heron 83 and 272

Marsh-Harrier--very old male 274

Summer evening--Owls and Moths 276

xxxiv. Dancers at Granada--the _Bolero_ _To face_ 289

Gypsy lad 290

Gypsy dance 292

Lämmergeyer--a first impression 295

Dance and guitar 297

Griffon Vulture (a sketch from life) 303

"Roses in Spain" 306

xxxv. Lämmergeyer--a sketch from life in the Sierra Bermeja _To face_ 309

Our quarters at Guentar del Rio 312

Ibex-head--Sierra de Gredos 319

xxxvi. Vineyard and gateway _To face_ 325

Vines in March (Jerez) 326

xxxvii. In a Jerez Bodega _To face_ 328

xxxviii. Irrigation by the _noria_, or water-wheel _To face_ 334

A vineyard at Jerez 336

Great Bustards 337 and 340

Little Bustards--May 345

xxxix. A Spanish jungle--The Angosturas _To face_ 348

Fishing-boats 349

xl. Palacio de Doñana _To face_ 350

xli. Breakfast-time--Doñana _To face_ 352

A royal head--Doñana 354

Dead Lynx 355

Group of forest-guards 357

Pannier-pony and game 358

Spanish Red Deer--a mountain-head from Morena 360 and 430

---- a stag of thirteen points 363

xlii. Spanish wildfowlers approaching duck with _cabresto_ ponies _To face_ 365

xliii. A shot in the open (Red Deer) _To face_ 367

Wild Boar--an old tusker 368

xliv. Salavar--a sketch in a Spanish _Mancha_ _To face_ 369

xlv. Wildfowling with _cabrestos_--

---- ---- No. 1. The approach _To face_ 372

xlvi. ---- ---- No. 2. The shot _To face_ 374

xlviii. ---- ---- No. 3. The result _To face_ 381

"_Anseres son!_" 377

Greylag Geese flighting--daybreak 378

xlvii. Grey Geese and Wigeon--midday _To face_ 378

Marsh-Harrier (young) 380

xlix. "The farewell shot" _To face_ 382

Mallards 387

Grey Geese 390 and 391

l. Redshanks (101 and) _To face_ 393

Stilts 396 and 404

Little Gull and Tern 398

li. "A Hundred at a Shot--now or never!" _To face_ 400

"The Biter and the Bit" (Harrier and Teal) 401

lii. La Marismilla--a shooting morning _To face_ 405

Spanish guns 411

"The eleven-pointer" (Red Deer) 413

A fifteen-pointer (Red Deer) 414

"Dropped in his tracks" (Wild Boar) 416

Stork's nest--The Banderas, Seville 422

---- ---- on straw-stack 459

Spanish Lynx 436

Spanish Ibex--Five-year-old Rams 440

WILD SPAIN.

(ESPAÑA AGRESTE.)