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sharp ears would have detected the slightest click; so I loosed 
my 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 
Coto Dofiana ? 
MAvRIcE DE BuNSEN. 
BririsH Empassy, MApRIp, 
July 1910. 
GREENSHANK (Totanus canescens) 
