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That night, though confined in strong wooden cases, they gnawed 
their way out, and were never seen more, albeit their prison 
was on board a yacht anchored in mid-stream and half-a-mile 
from shore. 
A few such days and nights as these teach that wild Spain 
cherishes other animals besides the game, to the full as interesting 
and even mote difficult to secure. 
If we are asked (as we often have been before) why we molest 
creatures which have no value when killed, we reply that almost 
without exception our Spanish specimens have gone to enrich one 
collection or another, public or private, and that during the year 
in which we write this the authors spent a fortnight in obtaining 
a series of these animals for our National Museum at South 
Kensington, with the following results :—" 
Four lynxes—two males, 304 and 31 lbs.; two females, 184 and 23 lbs. 
—representing both types, namely, (1) that with many small spots, and 
(2) the handsomer form with fewer large and conspicuous blotches. 
One wild-cat (an exceptional specimen)—a male of 15 lbs. with 
yellow irides instead of the usual cold, cruel, pale-green eyes like an 
unripe gooseberry. This cat was what the Spanish keepers describe as 
rayado = banded, i.e. the spots are arrayed in regular series or interrupted 
bands rather than scattered promiscuously. This race is distinguished as 
gato clavo, the ordinary wild-cat being known as gato romano. 
Several other wild-cats (Gatos romanos)—males weighing from 102 
to 124 Ibs.; females weighing from 74 to 84 lbs. 
In the sierras wild-cats run heavier than this, for we have killed 
in Moréna a wild-cat that scaled 73 kilos, or upwards of 17 lbs. 
Two badgers—male, 174 lbs.; female, 144 lbs. These Spanish 
badgers are blacker in the legs than British examples, and their fere-claws 
are more powerfully developed, possibly in this case through living in 
sand. Really big males weigh nearly double the above. 
Ten foxes (Vulpes melanogaster)—six males weighing 133, 14, 15 
163, 164, 17 lbs.; four females weighing 11, 119, 134, 14 lbs. 
Besides “small deer,” such as rats and mice, voles, moles, and dormice, 
to say nothing of a whole red-stag and a whole wild-boar ! 
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March 2, 1907.—Chillando this evening at the Oyillos del 
Tio Juan Roque, a big grey sow with numerous progeny came 
1 Several of these animals, moreover, yield excellent fur. 
