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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1867. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF SPAIN. (Plate V.) The birds of Spain appear to be less known than those of any other part of Europe of equal extent. The only authorities on the subject to which I am able to refer are, Captain Widdrington, Dr. A. E. Brehmt, Mr. Bury J, Don Antonio Machado§, and two or three contributors to the ' Journal of Arts and Sciences of Madrid/ In my two short visits to Spain, I have of course not been able to acquire sufficient knowledge of her avifauna to write with any authority on the subject; but having taken careful notes of all that I did see, I am inclined to think that the result of my observations may prove of interest to some of the readers of the ' Ibis/ My first visit to the country was in August 1856, in the Royal Yacht Squadron's schooner 'Claymore;' on which occasion, sailing from Falmouth, we first touched at Corunna, and thence, avoiding Portugal on account of the cholera which was raging at Lisbon, we sailed to Cadiz and all the principal Spanish ports on the Mediterranean, including Palma and Port Mahon in the Balearic Islands. As we merely stayed a few days at each place, and the weather was intensely hot, my opportunities for studying birds were not many; but I saw enough to render me very anxious to revisit Spain, and I may add that, to Sketches in Spain. By Capt. S. E. Cook. London and Paris: 1834. t Naturhistorische Zeitung, vol. iii. Dresden: 1857. % Zoologist, 1848, p. 1958. § Catalogo de las aves observadas en algunas provincias de Andalucia. Sevilla: 1854. my mind, a more interesting country in every way can hardly exist. A second visit in the spring of 1864 only confirmed my previous favourable impression of Spain, her people, her climate, her beauties of nature and art, and last, but by no means least in my ...
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