60 Unexplored Spain 
as a rule, foxes and lynxes—creatures which move on impulse, 
and instantly quit a zone where danger threatens. Both, how- 
ever, will certainly pass unseen should there be any scrub to 
conceal their retreat. The lynx especially is adept at utilising 
cover, however slight. Should open patches or sandy glades 
occur among the bush, foxes will be viewed bundling along, to 
all appearance quite carelessly. Here in Spain foxes are merely 
“vermin”; but it is a mistake to shoot them, owing to the risk 
of thereby turning back better game. Neither lynx nor fox, by 
the way, are accounted caza mayor unless killed with a bullet. 
SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA 
(Sardinian warbler ; conspicuous by its strong colour-contrasts. ) 
As elsewhere mentioned, there is always a_ considerable 
possibility at the earlier period of a “drive” (and even before 
the operation has actually commenced) of some old and highly 
experienced stag attempting to slip through the line in the 
calculated hope (which is often well founded) that he will thereby 
take most of the guns by surprise and so escape unshot at. 
Never be unready. 
Although in “driving,” that element of ceaseless personal 
effort, observation and self-reliance that characterise stalking, 
still-hunting, or spooring, is necessarily reduced, yet it is by 
no means eliminated. Nor are there lacking compensating 
charms in those hours of silent expectancy spent in the solitude 
of jungle or amid the aromatic fragrance of pine-forest. Every 
