16 Unexplored Spain 
a grace 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, big or little, breeding female or immature—it matters not; 
Types OF SPANISH BiRD-LIFE 
DARTFORD WARBLER (Sylvia undata) 
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 will 
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. 
1 Ata big hotel the menw 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 ! 
