BIG GAME SHOOTING 



the double dagger is driven home to the heart with all the 

 power of the osertfs right arm. 



This kind of bear-hunting is hereditary, the profession of 

 osero passing from father to son with the peasants of the 

 Asturias ; but for the most part the bear is killed like other 

 game in Spain, by means of large organised ' drives ' or 

 batidas. 



Red deer are found locally and irregularly over several 

 provinces of the Peninsula, differing in type from Scotch red 

 deer in the absence of the shaggy mane or ruff on the neck, 

 and in some slight modifications in the horns. Being chiefly 

 forest deer their heads are narrow, and the animals slim built 

 and game-like. They are found both in the mountains and 

 among the extensive pine forests and scrub-covered plains ; but 

 the finest heads are obtained in the Sierra Morena, to the west 

 of Cordova, though the deer are most numerous in the southern 

 wooded plains of Andalusia, in which part of the Peninsula 

 the writers of this chapter, forming two of a party of eight or 

 ten guns, have killed from twenty to thirty stags in a week's 

 shooting, besides wild boar, lynx, and other beasts, and between 

 sixty and seventy stags in a season. 



Deer shooting usually begins in November and ends in 

 February or early in March. 



The following are measurements of heads that we have had 

 the fortune to obtain in Andalusia. Though not the largest 

 known, they are good typical heads : 



Forest Deer 



