xx. Ibex-hunting--a sketch in the Sierra de Gredos _To face_ 141
xxi. Ibex-hunting--the two old Rams at the "Cannon-Rock" _To face_ 148
xxii. Our camp on the Riscos de Valderejo _To face_ 152
Ibex-hunters of Gredos--a sketch by the camp-fire 154
xxiii. Ibex-hunting--a sketch in the Sierra Bermeja _To face_ 161
Griffon Vulture and nest--Puerta de Palomas 208
Strange neighbours (Vultures and Storks) 209
xxv. "Where the carcase is" _To face_ 213
xxviii. Threshing corn with mares _To face_ 226
"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
xxxii. Mallards and Ferruginous Ducks--Alamillo _To face_ 268
xxxiii. White-fronted Ducks--Santolalla _To face_ 270
xxxiv. Dancers at Granada--the _Bolero_ _To face_ 289
xxxv. Lämmergeyer--a sketch from life in the Sierra Bermeja _To face_ 309
xxxvi. Vineyard and gateway _To face_ 325
xxxviii. Irrigation by the _noria_, or water-wheel _To face_ 334
xxxix. A Spanish jungle--The Angosturas _To face_ 348
xli. Breakfast-time--Doñana _To face_ 352
Spanish Red Deer--a mountain-head from Morena 360 and 430
xlii. Spanish wildfowlers approaching duck with _cabresto_ ponies _To face_ 365
xliii. A shot in the open (Red Deer) _To face_ 367
xliv. Salavar--a sketch in a Spanish _Mancha_ _To face_ 369
---- ---- No. 1. The approach _To face_ 372
xlvi. ---- ---- No. 2. The shot _To face_ 374
xlviii. ---- ---- No. 3. The result _To face_ 381
xlvii. Grey Geese and Wigeon--midday _To face_ 378
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
Among European countries Spain stands unique in regard to the range of her natural and physical features. In no other land can there be found, within a similar area, such extremes of scene and climate as characterize the 400 by 400 miles of the Iberian Peninsula. Switzerland has alpine regions loftier and more imposing, Russia vaster steppes, and Norway more arctic scenery: but nowhere else in Europe do arctic and tropic so nearly meet as in Spain. Contrast, for example, the stern grandeur of the Sierra Nevada, wrapped in eternal snow, with the almost tropical luxuriance of the Mediterranean shores which lie at its feet.