The lynx (Fe/is pardina) 



CHAPTER X 



THE LARGE GAME OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 



BY AUEL CHAPMAN AND W. J. BUCK 

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THOUGH comparatively near 'home,' Spain is but little known 

 to the mass of English sportsmen. Its game laws are not 

 such as to deter the foreigner from visiting its shores, and its 

 game list is a fairly long and interesting one ; but such sport 

 as Spain offers is mostly 'driving' a sport exciting enough 

 in itself, but not to be compared with stalking or still hunting. 

 Besides this, sport in Spain is expensive. As for the ibex of 

 the Spanish highlands, a competent authority states that every 

 ibex shot in Spain by our English sportsmen from Gibraltar 

 costs at the lowest computation ioo/. 



In principle, if not in practice, the game laws of Spain 

 resemble our own, recognising a vested right of chase in the 

 owner or occupier of the land. 



