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the ordinary traveller appears strikingly large, this being, no 
doubt, in a great measure caused by the quantity which are, 
for ten months at least out of the year, more or less on migra- 
tion ; that is to say, with the exception of June and July, there 
is no month in which the passage of birds is not noticeable, 
June being the only one in which there may be said to be 
absolutely no migration, as during the month of July Cuckoos 
and some Bee-eaters return to the south. 
Though shooting is hardly a subject wdthin the design of 
an ornithological brochure like the present, yet it generally 
happens that an ornithologist is also a sportsman ; and there- 
fore a few lines on the subject may be acceptable. 
In Morocco no large game is found within reach of the 
European sportsman, excepting wild pigs, which are only to 
be obtained by the battue system of driving the jungle with 
beaters and dogs, sitting for hours waiting for the chance of 
a shot, a class of amusement dignified by the name of a " boar- 
hunt ; " sometimes, where the country is sufficiently open, the 
real sport of pig-sticking can be had. 
No doubt further in the interior there is other large 
game ; but with the exception of shooting an occasional 
gazelle and a few pigs, there is no opportunity of using the 
rifle. 
The small-game shooting is very good ; the abundance of 
Barbary Partridges in some districts is miraculous ; but when 
killed they are of little valne in a culinary point of view, 
being more dry and tasteless than the Spanish Redleg (P. 
rubra), now so well known in many parts of England. 
The number of Snipe in some seasons is very great, espe- 
cially at Masharalhaddar, where, and also at E-as Dowra, 
Larache, Sharf el Akab, Martine near Tetuan, and Esmir 
near Ceuta, as good snipe- and wild fowl-shooting as may be 
wished for can be obtained. But it is always uncertain sport, 
as one day swarms are met with, and perhaps on the next day 
hardly any are to be found. The absence of roads and bridges 
renders the country in wet weather at times almost impossible 
to travel over, the tracks becoming a succession of mudholes, 
and the rivers impassable torrents. This, added to the un- 
