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Unexplored Spain 



a gi'cace to country life. But what is the treatment meted out 

 to the trout in Spain ? No sooner is its presence detected than 

 the whole stock — big and little alike, even the spawn — is blown 

 out of existence with dynamite, poisoned by quicklime, or 

 captured wholesale (regardless of season or condition) in nets, 

 cruives, funnel-traps, and every other abomination. Kill and 

 eat, bisf or little, breedino- female or immature — it matters not ; 



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Types or Spanish Bird-Life 



DARTFORD WARBLER {Si/lvla vmlata) 



Resident. Frequents deep furze-coverts, seldom seen (as we are constrained 

 to represent it) in separate outline. 



kill all you can to-day and leave the morrow^ to itself. True, 

 there are game-laws and close-seasons, but none observe them.^ 



We have selected these examples because we know and can 

 speak with absolute authority. Presumption and analogy wall 

 naturally suggest that the same intelligence, the same blind 

 improvidence will apply equally in other and far more important 

 matters. Not one of our Spanish friends with whom we have 

 discussed these subjects time and again but agrees to the letter 

 with the above conclusions and most bitterly regrets them. 



^ At a big hotel the menu on May 26 included (as usual) " partridges." We emphasised 

 a mild protest by refusing to eat them ; but the landlord scored with both barrels. On 

 opening our luncheon-basket next day (we had a twelve-hours' railway journey), there were 

 the rejected redlegs ! We had to eat them then — or starve ! 



