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sharp ears would liave detected the slightest click ; so I loosed 

 mv bullet for what it was worth. 



The lynx was gone. When the beat came at last to an end, 

 I thought I would just have a look at his tracks. He lay 

 stone-dead behind a bush, shot through the heart. 



The eventful days are all too soon over. But the recollection 

 remains of happy companionship and varying adventure, of easy 

 intercourse between Spaniard and Englishman, with the echo of 

 many a sporting tale, mingled with sage discourse from qualified 

 lips on the habits of bird and beast. Who can tell you more 

 about them than that group of true sportsmen and lovers of 

 nature whose names, Garvey, Buck, Gonzalez, and Chapman, are 

 indissolubly linked with the more modern history of the famous 

 Goto Donana ? 



Maurice de Bunsen. 



Bkitish Embassy, Madrid, 

 Jnlji 1910. 



GREENSHANK (Totanus canescens) 



