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Title: Lord Lilford on birds: being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late president of the British Ornithologists' Union. With contributed papers upon falconry and otter hunting, his favourite sports
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, Baron, 1882-1896 Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort, 1855-1922 Thorburn, Archibald, 1860-1935
Subjects: Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys Ornithologists -- Correspondence
Publisher: London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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spring at his village ; hishouse was completely destroyed, his donkey and pigdrowned, many of his vicinos were in a still worse plight,and many took refuge in the tower. All the wheatwas destroyed, and the vines and olives ruined. Thisyear there is hardly any water in the marisma. Franciscowent out and brought in a couple of grey lag geese,t whichhe killed by stalking with the horse. He sat for sometime with us in the cabin after dinner, and I showed himsome of Dressers plates of ducks, etc., of which he gave * Gyps ftilvus, Neophron percnopfenis, Comis corax, ^-Ei^ialitishiaticula. t The Grey Lag Goose (Anser ferns) is commonly held to be thechief originator of our domestic goose. It is the only wild goosewhich nests in Britain (Scotland). Although it is said to nest veryoccasionally in Andalucia, the birds here referred to would be wintervisitors. The name means (Prof. Skeat) the lagging goose, i.e., thelagging-behind goose—staying to nest—when other species leave in thespring.
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?/ MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 215 me the local names.* He recognised the white-headedduck (^Erismatura leucocephala) as one of a species whichappeared at Santa Olalla this year for the first time tohis knowledge. We laid our plans for an early startafter the geese to-morrow morning. February 13//;. Intent on wild geese, I and I rose about 5 a.m., and started in the steam launchwith the captain and the gente to a spot some two milesdown the river in the Isla Menor. The hijos de Manueland Perico borrowed a big hoe and soon dug me out a hole in the open field, the captain and I concealed themselves as best they could farther along, and Migueland Francisco went away to stalk with the horse and tryto put the geese (of which many hundreds were feedingin sight of us) over our heads. These ninos went a longway, and we waited more or less patiently for some three hours, but the geese passed over I and T., quite out of shot, although they both fired. One flock of somefifteen or sixteen great bustards

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