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WILD SPAIN. 



June in Spain is a month of intense heat — heat of that 

 fiery high-dried sort that scorches as an open furnace. In 

 June, as a Spanish proverb says — " Nothing but a dog or 

 an Enghshman " ventures out of doors ; nor from an orni- 



MARSH HARRIER— VERY OLD MALE. 



thological point of view is there much inducement to do so. 

 The teeming variet}" of bird-hfe which characterizes April 

 and May is now conspicuously absent. Migration is sus- 



