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and they came well except to me. We went a little way 

 up the Brazo del Este, but had no luck whatever owing 

 to muffishness. Several heavy showers, during the worst 

 of which we sheltered in a shepherd's hut and lunched. 

 As we were sitting in the boat at the huts, close to 

 the yacht, after having given up shooting, a female 

 bustard was weak enough to fly past ; she received four 

 barrels from T., Frost, and self, and fell a victim. Saw 

 many pintailed sand grouse." 



" March i $th. We started about 7, and took much 

 the same line as yesterday. Found a good many 

 bustards, but again the shooters were at fault. I killed 

 two, an old barbon, and a young male of last year, the 

 only two which presented themselves to me. 



" Saw vast flocks of white storks. T. shot a fine male 

 pintail and a mallard (of which we saw several) ; also 

 a green sandpiper, one of three. Saw a few teal, not 

 many cranes, and a good number of vultures." 



" March i jth. Fine morning, wind veering north- 

 east at daybreak, but glass going rapidly down. We 

 took up the Brazo del Este, and made nearly the 

 whole circuit of the Isla Menor. We saw one or two 

 large lots of bustards, but none of us had a shot at 

 them, and the only animal bagged was a hare, shot by 

 old Manuel. A great quantity of griffon and Egyptian 

 vultures and common and black kites about some dead 

 horses in the marisma of Palacios. Every sign of rain 



