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Pictures of Bird Life 



The Golden Eagle and Bonellis Eagle are confined to 

 the sierras during the nesting season, and nothing was seen 

 of either of them. 



The next day was spent steaming up the river to Seville^ 

 where a stay was made of several days. The scenery, as 

 seen from the Guadalquivir, can hardly be described as 



interesting or picturesque 

 to anybody but an orni- 

 thologist. To us, however, 

 tliere was mucli to watch 

 for and plenty to interest. 



AVliere the river divides 

 and forms the Isla ]Mayor 

 ^\'e coidd from the bridge 

 look across a fiat expanse 

 of marsli and shallow 

 water, in whicli were stand- 

 ing whole battalions of 

 Flamingoes in Hocks of 

 hundreds. Here and there 

 on stacks and buildings 

 could be seen Storks standing by and sitting on their nests. 

 Sometimes the sliores and tlie edge of the water, when 

 shallow enough, were })lack with hundreds of cattle drinking, 

 for this is a famous grazing-ground for tlie bulls destined 

 for the national sport of the bull-fight. In one place we 

 saw thousands of Sand-martins resting on their passage norths 

 and several large flocks of Starlings were noticed. 



Buff-backed Heron {ArHca biibiilciis). 



