BIG DAYS WITH BUSTARDS SANTO DOMINGO. 



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group of grey cranes and a pair of partridges indulging in 



vernal flirtations, careless of a kite which hovered hard by. 



Beyond the corn-land lay undulated mancliones, or 



THE BUSTARD-SHOOTER— TRIUMPH ! 



fallows, clothed with a short growth of grass and thistles, 

 and here on the summit of a flat-crowned knoll, a mile 

 away, we descried a band of eight bustards. Hardly could 

 a more unfavourable spot be selected. Their sentries 



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