Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e by one high in the air, and then dropping themon to the rocks in order to get at the marrow. The(xolden P^agle and Imperial Eagle, Bonellis and the Short-toed Eagle, and the Booted Eagle are all to be found,some of them preying on the rabbits and the smallerquadrupeds, and others on the innumerable snakes andlizards which aboimd in every direction. Of the larger Hawks, the Kites, partly carrion- andpartly reptile-eaters, are exceedingly numerous. The Egg-eating Harriers are to be seen daily quartering the lowergi-ounds and reed-beds for what eggs and young birds they canfind. The knightly Peregrine and the more humble Kestrelare also numerc^us. But perhaps it is that extraordinary 268 Pictures of Bird Life and unique region known as the niarisnia which affordsthe greatest di^ersity of bird hfe. Here come, either atone time of tlie year or tlie otlier, ahnost every speciesof marsh, aquatic, and wading birds on our hst of Britishbirds, with many others unknown to us. The Great Bustard
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iSEST OF KijL (^MiTins ir^^alts). still frequents the rolling plains and tawny corn-fields of thesouth, and the stately Crane nests amid tlie reed-grownlagoons. So tliat, when I received an invitation to join a yachtingparty at Gibraltar, for the piupose of exploring the mouthof the Guadalquivir and the famous marismas of that dis- Bird Life in the Spanish Marismas 269 trict ill searcli of birds, it is needless to say that it wasaccepted witli alacrity. It was the very thing I had beenlonoing to do for years ; all needful preparations were madewith the greatest enthusiasm, and a start was made withanticipations which were more than fulfilled. Travellingoverland through France—for I had been unable to catchthe steamer did not present anything wortliy of notice.Birds, indeed, appeared, as far as one could judge from thepassing train, conspicuous by their absence, with the ex-ception of ^Magpies, wdiicli were more plentiful than I hadexer seen them before. Tlieir nests were to be see

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