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The chamois, more properly izard. is driven in the higher slopes 

 of the Pyrenees and mountains of Santander, and does not, so far 

 as I know, occur in any of the central or southern mountains. 



Wild boar are numerous, particularly in the central and southern 



provinces, and the favourite method of killing them is by driving. 



In Toledo and Estremadura, however, they hunt boar 



^ with the aforementioned -bodencos, and alanos, a kind 



Bear. ^ 



of mastiff, are also employed to hold the boar down 

 by the ears, while someone walks up and knifes it. This, by the 

 way, is a mere complimentary job for a visitor, as there is no danger 

 in it whatever. Spanish boars run to a great size and have all the 

 pluck and fight of their kind, which makes it all the more welcome 

 that pig-sticking should be given a chance of attaining popularity. 

 In some parts of Spain these animals are very plentiful, and I 

 recollect seeing one gun bag seven pig in a single beat in the 

 Sierra Morena. Pig have been hunted with spears in the Goto de 

 Onana, near Sevilla, let by the Duke of Medina Sidonia to a few 

 sportsmen belonging to Jerez and Sevilla, but they are more com- 

 monly killed in that wonderful preserve in drives, along with red 

 and roe deer. Bears are found only in the Pyrenees and one or 

 two other ranges in the north. The peasants kill them with the 

 knife, but sportsmen seem to prefer the rifle. 



The lynx and wild cat, terrible poachers both, and very fierce 



for their size, are shot in all the mountainous districts. 

 \KT'\t\ r f "^^^^ ^^'^'"^ ^^ particularly plentiful, though probably 



on the decrease, in Andalusia and other southern 

 provinces, while the wild cat is most abundant in the province 



