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BIRDS. 



Great Bustard 



Lesser ,, 



Partridge 



Quail . 



Woodcock 



Snipe 



Wild Duck 



Goose 



Eagle 



Vulture . 



Flaminsfo 



Abu tarda. 



Si son. 



Perdiz. 



Codorniz. 



Choc/ia. 



AgacJiadiza. 



A nade. 



Ganso. 



Aguila. 



Buitre. 



Flamenco. 



It will not escape notice that the above list includes one or 

 two animals, such as wild cats, eagles, and vultures, that are not 

 regarded as legitimate objects of sport in some other countries ; 

 but I imagine that I shall best do the work I have undertaken by 

 describing Spanish sport from the Spanish point of view. 



Red deer occur chiefly in the provinces of Estremadura and 



Andalusia, where they are strictly preserved. The favourite method 



is to drive them to the guns, sometimes with the help 



Deer. 

 of a pack of podencos, a powerful and swift-footed 



greyhound, also used for boar. On the whole, perhaps, our red 



deer have finer horns than the Scotch stag, but the heads are far 



inferior to those of Hungary. I never heard of anyone stalking 



them. The late King Alfonso XII. was a keen shooter of stags, 



and there were noble heads in the royal preserves at Riofrio, near 



Segovia, where I have seen a head of thirty-three points. It would. 



