42 Unexplored Spain 
Australia and New Zealand, and are now returning to their 
summer breeding-grounds in farthest Siberia, beyond the Yenisei. 
Thus some morning in early May one sees the marismas filled 
with godwits and knots, curlew-sandpipers and grey plovers, all 
in their glorious summer-plumage. But these only tarry here a 
few days. A short week before they had thronged the shores of 
the southern hemisphere—far beyond the zodiac of Capricorn. A 
week hence and they are at home in the Arctic. 
Andalucia possesses a feathered census that approaches 400 
species; but of these hardly a score are permanently resident 
throughout the year. 
“GLOBE-SPANNERS” 
Rest twelve hours in Spain on the journey—Australia to Siberia. 
Four-footed creatures are less difficult of diagnosis than are 
birds. By nature less mobile, they are infinitely less numerous 
specifically. Relatively the Spanish census is long, and includes, 
locally, quite a number of interesting beasts that are “ lumped 
together” as Alimafias—to wit, lynxes, wild-cats, genets, mon- 
goose, foxes, otters, badgers, of which we treat separately. The 
two chief game-animals of the Coto Dofiana are the red deer and 
the wild-boar. These two we here examine from the sportsman’s 
point of view as much as from that of the naturalist. 
The Spanish red deer are specifically identical with those of 
Scotland and the rest of Europe, and are distributed over the 
whole southern half of the Iberian Peninsula—say south of a line 
drawn through Madrid. Their haunts, as a rule, are restricted to 
the mountain-ranges—especially the Sierra Moréna, where they 
