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the sport that ma,y be had with snipe in Southern 

 Spain : — 



Nor. 20, 1873. — Catahina (B guns), 166 snipe, 1 pigeon, 

 10 quail, 1 hindrail=178 head. 



Xor. 30, 1873. — Catalana (2 guns), 115 snipe, 2 wood- 

 cock, 3 rails, 1 waterhen, 1 bittern = 122 head. 



Dec. 21, 1873.— El Torno (3 guns), 108 snipe, 17 wood- 

 cock, 3 rabbits, 8 golden plover, 2 pigeons, 1 badger = 139 

 head. 



Dec. 20, 1874.— Retuerta (4 guns), 160 snipe, 36 duck 

 and teal, a marsh-harrier, and 8 sundries = 205 head. 



Nov. 18, 1877. — Retuerta (3 guns, half day), 103 snipe, 

 4 quail, 2 partridge, 6 ducks, 1 goose, 2 rails, 1 eagle = 119 

 head. 



Nov. 19, 1882.— (3 guns), 155 snipe, 28 sundries. 



Dec. 1886. — (1 gun), 96 snipe : 20 couple shot passing 

 over one spot, from one marsh to another. 



Dec. 4, 1889.— Rocina (6 guns), 232 snipe, besides 

 partridge, quail, duck, &c. 



Dec. 12, 1889.— Retuerta (2 guns, W. E. Brymer and 

 W. J. B.), 60 snipe, 58 ducks, 11 geese = 129 head. 



Woodcock. 

 Spanish, ChocJta — (Andalucia) Gallineta. 



Arrives in November, but never in any quantities — ten 

 or twelve couple in a day is an unusual bag, and we have 

 none worth recording. 



The latest woodcocks shot in Andalucia are about the 

 middle of March. 



Quails. 



Spanish, Codorniz. 



Though not strictly marsh-birds, yet quails at times 

 abound among the moist rushy prairies, both of Spain and 

 Portugal, and hardly a hillock of drier ground or micro- 

 scopic patch of maize- stubble but will yield a brace or two. 



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