| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. |
| PLATE NO. | PAGE |
| i. | Map of Spain and Portugal | Frontispiece |
| An Andaluz | 3 |
| A Granadino | 4 |
| Basque peasant | 5 |
| ii. | Relics of the Moors—Ruins of the Watch-tower of Melgarejo | To face 6 |
| Fair Sevillanas | 8 |
| A choza: the home of the Andalucian peasant | 13 |
| iii. | Pair of Civil Guards—Jerez | To face 14 |
| A water-seller | 18 |
| iv. | Daughters of Andalucia | To face 19 |
| Dancers with castanets | 20 |
| A village posada | 21 |
| "Furniture" | 25 |
| Our quarters in the Sierra | 26 |
| A straight charge (wild boar) | 30 |
| v. | "That old tusker" (wild boar) | To face 31 |
| A mule with trappings | 32 |
| vi. | Bustards on the barrens—winter;—a first shade of suspicion | To face 33 |
| vii. | Watering the cattle—summer-time | To face 35 |
| Great Bustard—echando la rueda | 39 |
| viii. | Bustard-driving—the pack come "well in" | To face 40 |
| Great Bustards—an April dawn | 43 |
| ix. | " "—among the spring-corn | To face 48 |
| The Bustard-shooter—triumph! | 51 |
| x. | Ancient draw-well on the plains | To face 52 |
| xi. | Bulls on the plains | To face 57 |
| xii. | The morn of the Fight—Bulls in the toril (Miura's breed) | To face 61 |
| xiii. | The Encierro | To face 65 |
| A Bull-fighter | 66 |
| A Matador | 68 |
| Fishing-boat on the Guadalquivir | 78 |
| Flamingoes | 74, 102 and 115 |
| Avocets | 77, 82 and 87 |
| Stilts | 70, 86 and 92 |
| xiv. | Booted Eagle | To face 81 |
| xv. | Pintailed Sand-Grouse | To face 85 |
| Grey Plovers—summer-plumage | 89 |
| xvi. | The Spanish Wild Camels—our first sight of a couple in the marisma | To face 94 |
| xvii. | Wild Camels—seen through the binoculars | To face 98 |
| Flamingoes on feed | 104 |
| A right-and-left at Flamingoes | 106 |
| Spanish Lynx | 107 |
| A toilet in the wilderness (Flamingoes) | 109 |
| Flamingoes and nests | 111 |
| xviii. | Flamingoes on their nests | To face 112 |
| Civil Guards—a sketch from life | 121 |
| Draw-well at the Zumajo, near Jerez | 127 |
| Spanish Ibex, Old Ram—Sierra de Gredos | 131 |
| —————— Sierra Nevada | 133, 135, and 170 |
| xix. | On the crags of Almanzór (Ibex) | To face 137 |
| Old olive-trees near Talavera | 139 |
| xx. | Ibex-hunting—a sketch in the Sierra de Gredos | To face 141 |
| Our first old Ram | 145 |
| xxi. | Ibex-hunting—the two old Rams at the "Cannon-Rock" | To face 148 |
| The peaks of Gredos | 149 |
| xxii. | Our camp on the Riscos de Valderejo | To face 152 |
| Ibex-hunters of Gredos—a sketch by the camp-fire | 154 |
| Ibex, female—Riscos de Valderejo | 155 |
| ———— Bermeja | 158 |
| xxiii. | Ibex-hunting—a sketch in the Sierra Bermeja | To face 161 |
| Forest Ibex, old Ram—Bermeja | 164 |
| Trout | 175, 182, and 186 |
| Chamois | 179 and 442 |
| Spanish Imperial Eagle | 190, 198, and 219 |
| ———— (Spotted stage) | 193 |
| ———— The Eagle's swoop | 262 |
| Tawny Eagle | 195 |
| Black Vulture | 201 and 202 |
| At roost—Serpent-Eagles | 204 |
| xxiv. | A Vulture's banquet | To face 206 |
| Griffon Vulture and nest—Puerta de Palomas | 208 |
| Strange neighbours (Vultures and Storks) | 209 |
| xxv. | "Where the carcase is" | To face 213 |
| Bonelli's Eagle (adult) | 217 and 383 |
| xxvi. | Ploughing with oxen | To face 221 |
| Wooden ploughshare | 224 |
| xxvii. | The harvest-field | To face 225 |
| xxviii. | Threshing corn with mares | To face 226 |
| xxix. | Winnowing | To face 228 |
| "Waiting for death" (old olive-trees) | 232 |
| xxx. | Kites and Marsh-Harriers | To face 242 |
| xxxi. | Sand-dunes and Corrales of Doñana | To face 245 |
| Hoopoes | 248 |
| A serenade (Red-leg Partridge) | 251 |
| Azure-winged Magpies | 258 |
| Eyed Lizard and Serpent-Eagle | 260 |
| Black Stork | 265 |
| xxxii. | Mallards and Ferruginous Ducks—Alamillo | To face 268 |
| xxxiii. | White-fronted Ducks—Santolalla | To face 270 |
| Buff-backed Heron | 83 and 272 |
| Marsh-Harrier—very old male | 274 |
| Summer evening—Owls and Moths | 276 |
| xxxiv. | Dancers at Granada—the Bolero | To face 289 |
| Gypsy lad | 290 |
| Gypsy dance | 292 |
| Lämmergeyer—a first impression | 295 |
| Dance and guitar | 297 |
| Griffon Vulture (a sketch from life) | 303 |
| "Roses in Spain" | 306 |
| xxxv. | Lämmergeyer—a sketch from life in the Sierra Bermeja | To face 309 |
| Our quarters at Guentar del Rio | 312 |
| Ibex-head—Sierra de Gredos | 319 |
| xxxvi. | Vineyard and gateway | To face 325 |
| Vines in March (Jerez) | 326 |
| xxxvii. | In a Jerez Bodega | To face 328 |
| xxxviii. | Irrigation by the noria, or water-wheel | To face 334 |
| A vineyard at Jerez | 336 |
| Great Bustards | 337 and 340 |
| Little Bustards—May | 345 |
| xxxix. | A Spanish jungle—The Angosturas | To face 348 |
| Fishing-boats | 349 |
| xl. | Palacio de Doñana | To face 350 |
| xli. | Breakfast-time—Doñana | To face 352 |
| A royal head—Doñana | 354 |
| Dead Lynx | 355 |
| Group of forest-guards | 357 |
| Pannier-pony and game | 358 |
| Spanish Red Deer—a mountain-head from Morena | 360 and 430 |
| —— a stag of thirteen points | 363 |
| xlii. | Spanish wildfowlers approaching duck with cabresto ponies | To face 365 |
| xliii. | A shot in the open (Red Deer) | To face 367 |
| Wild Boar—an old tusker | 368 |
| xliv. | Salavar—a sketch in a Spanish Mancha | To face 369 |
| xlv. | Wildfowling with cabrestos— |
| ———— No. 1. The approach | To face 372 |
| xlvi. | ———— No. 2. The shot | To face 374 |
| xliii. | xlviii. ————No. 3. The result | To face 381 |
| "Anseres son!" | 377 |
| Greylag Geese flighting—daybreak | 378 |
| xlii. | Grey Geese and Wigeon—midday | To face 378 |
| Marsh-Harrier (young) | 380 |
| xlix. | "The farewell shot" | To face 382 |
| Mallards | 387 |
| Grey Geese | 390 and 391 |
| l. | Redshanks (101 and) | To face 393 |
| Stilts | 396 and 404 |
| Little Gull and Tern | 398 |
| li. | "A hundred at a shot—now or never!" | To face 400 |
| "The Biter and the Bit" (Harrier and Teal) | 401 |
| lii. | La Marismilla—a shooting morning | To face 405 |
| Spanish guns | 411 |
| "The eleven-pointer" (Red Deer) | 413 |
| A fifteen-pointer (Red Deer) | 414 |
| "Dropped in his tracks" (Wild Boar) | 416 |
| Stork's nest—The Banderas, Seville | 422 |
| ———— on straw-stack | 459 |
| Spanish Lynx | 436 |
| Spanish Ibex—Five-year-old Rams | 440 |