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wild-boar, ibex, chamois, brown bear, etc.), we treat in full detail 
hereafter. 
As regards winged game, this south-western corner of Europe 
is singularly weak. There exists but a single resident species 
of true game-bird—the redleg. Compare this with northern 
Europe, where, in a Scandinavian elk-forest, we have shot five 
kinds of grouse within five miles; while southwards, in Africa, 
francolins and guinea-fowl are counted in dozens of species. True, 
there are ptarmigan in the Pyrenees, capercaillie, hazel-grouse, 
and grey partridge in Cantabria, but all these are confined to the 
Biscayan area. Nor are we overlooking the grandest game-bird 
of all, the Great Bustard, chiefest ornament of Spanish steppe, 
and there are others—the lesser bustard, quail, sand-grouse, ete. 
—but these hardly fall within our definition. As for the teeming 
hosts of wildfowl and waterfowl that throng the Spanish marismas 
(some coming from Africa in spring, the bulk fleeing hither from 
the Arctic winter), all these are so fully treated elsewhere as to 
need no further notice here. 
Spain boasts several distinct species peculiar to her limits. 
Among such (besides the ibex) are that curious amphibian, the 
Pyrenean musk-rat (Myogale pyrenaica), not again to be met 
with nearer than the eastern confines of Europe. Birds afford 
an even more striking instance. The Spanish azure-winged 
magpie (Cyanopica cookc) abounds in Castile, Estremadura, and 
the Sierra Moréna, but its like is seen nowhere else on earth till 
you reach China and Japan! 
