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Pictures of Bird Life 



and unique region known as the " niarisnia " which affords 

 the greatest di^'ersity of bird hfe. Here come, either at 

 one time of tlie year or tlie otlier, ahnost every species 

 of marsh, aquatic, and wading birds on our hst of British 

 birds, with many others unknown to us. The Great Bustard 



iSEST OF KijL [^MiTi'ns ir^^alts). 



still frequents the rolling plains and tawny corn-fields of the 

 south, and the stately Crane nests amid tlie reed-grown 

 lagoons. 



So tliat, when I received an invitation to join a yachting 

 party at Gibraltar, for the piu"pose of exploring the mouth 

 of the Guadalquivir and the famous marismas of tliat dis- 



