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LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS. 



PLATE NO. 



Fishing-boat on the Guadalquivir .... 73 



Flamingoes 74, 102 and 115 



Avocets 77, 82 and 87 



Stilts 70, 86 and 92 



xiv. Booted Eagle To face 81 



xv. Pintailed Sand-Grouse ... To face 85 



Grey Plovers — summer-plumage .... 89 

 xvi. The Spanish Wild Camels — our first sight of a couple 



in the marisma To face 94 



xvii. Wild Camels — seen through the binoculars To face 98 



Flamingoes on feed 104 



A right-and-left at Flamingoes . . . . 106 



Spanish Lynx 107 



A toilet in the wilderness (Flamingoes) . . . 109 



Flamingoes and nests Ill 



iviii. Flamingoes on their nests . . . To face 112 



Civil Guards — a sketch from life . 121 



Draw-well at the Zumajo, near Jerez . . . 127 



Spanish Ibex, Old Earn — Sierra de Gredos . . 131 



Sierra Nevada . . 133, 135, and 170 



xix. On the crags of Almanzor (Ibex) . . To face 137 



Old olive-trees near Talavera 139 



xx. Ibex-hunting — a sketch in the Sierra de Gredos 



To face 141 



Our first old Earn ....... 145 



xxi. Ibex-hunting — the two old Earns at the " Cannon- 

 Bock " . . ... . . To face 148 



The peaks of Gredos 149 



xxii. Our camp on the Eiscos de Valderejo . To face 152 



Ibex-hunters of Gredos — a sketch by the camp-fire . 154 



Ibex, female — Biscos de Valderejo .... 155 



Bermeja ....... 158 



xxiii. Ibex-hunting — a sketch in the Sierra Bermeja 



To face 161 



Forest Ibex, old Bam — Bermeja .... 164 



Trout 175, 182, and 186 



Chamois 179 and 442 



Spanish Imperial Eagle . . . 190, 198, and 219 



(Spotted stage) 193 



The Eagle's swoop 262 



Tawny Eagle 195 



Black Vulture .... .201 and 202 



At roost — Serpent-Eagles 204 



xxiv. A Vulture's banquet . ... To face 206 



Griffon Vulture and nest — Puerta de Palomas . . 208 



Strange neighbours (Vultures and Storks) . . 209 



