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different periods, preferring its climate on account of the mildness of 
the air and of the singular amenity of the place» He finally settled 
in Madrid, where he died the 25th of August, 1780, in the 66th year 
of his age or thereahouts. He was buried in the parish of St. Martin, 
and his portrait, the property of his widow, will be placed in the 
Museum of Natural History." 
It may be gathered from this short notice that Bowles was fitted 
for scientific work by his studies and travels, and that corresponding 
weight may consequently be attached to his statements. In his 
chapter " On Eiseay in General" (De Yizcaya en General), speaking 
of the animals of chase, he says : — 
I saw no wild rabbits (no small luck for the country), nor stags, 
fallow deer, or roebucks (ciervos, gamos, ni corzos). In the woods may 
be met with by chance a wild boar (javali). Don Manuel de las 
Casas, who was Minister of Marine at San Sebastian, killed, in his 
native place. Las Encartaciones, a very large ounce or lynx (lobo 
cerval). The ordinary wolves (lobos comunes) are rare, either because 
there are but few small cattle, or because — the whole country being 
covered with farms (caserias) — should one be seen, he is at once 
hunted and killed, for which worh are excellent the greyhound dogs 
(perros lebreles) which they have brought here from Ireland (para lo qual, 
son excellentes los perros lebreles, que hay alii trahidos de Irlanda.)' 
Trom century to century is seen a bear, an animal common in the 
mountains of Leon and Asturias," &c. 
In Mr. Dillon's work, Travels in Spain (1782) : Letter xvi. — 
Description of the Lordship of Biscay and its Products — which is 
really a free translation of Bowles' chapter ''De Yizcaya en General," 
he says, p. 160 : — "In the plains they have hares, but no rabbits, 
nor any deer, nor roebucks, which last the Spaniards call cor%o^ as 
coming originally from Corsica, as they p-^'ve the name of galgo to a 
greyhound, having first had them from Gaul ; as Martial says : — 
' Leporemque csesum Gallici canis dente,' Lib. iii., Epig. 47. The 
woods are not without wild bears ; and Don Manuel de las Casas, who 
had been Minister of Marine at St. Sebastian's, killed a very large 
lynx {lupus cervarius), in that part called ' las Ecartaciones ' ; but the 
common wolf is scarce, there being so few sheep to entice them, and 
the country so fully inhabited, by which means they are immediately 
discovered and killed," &c. 
N^othing can be more precise than the terms used by Bowles ; and 
