AMONG THE FLAMINGOES. 



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right between us and rolled over with a dose of " treble A " 

 about her lugs. From this one small mancha the dogs put 

 out, besides the lynx, several partridge and rabbits, a 

 Montagu's harrier, and a pair of mallards ! This lynx was 

 a female, a full-grown and handsome example of Felis 

 IKirdina, \\\Mc\\ infested (as are most of the scrub-haunting 

 animals) with ticks, especially about the head : but it was 

 not much more than half the size of an enormous male 



SPANISH LYNX. 



which we subsequently found. Unluckily, half our pack 

 were then wasting their energies on a big boar, which, alter 

 trotting close up to where the writer stood, turned back 

 with a valedictory grunt and disappeared. The rest of the 

 pack had meanwhile driven the lynx to the outside of the 

 thicket, where we had already viewed him and regarded 

 his fate as sealed ; when, with sudden fury, the big cat 

 turned on his foes, and scattering the jxxlcncos with some 

 tremendous fore-arm blows, made good his escape to the 

 fastnesses of the Algaida de la Fez. 



