. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . )reed very early, beginning in immense primary feather was lying on the ground below,the only evidence seen of the Glossy Ibis {Plegadis falcinellus) and iNest.(The bird in front is a Buff-backed Heron.) 292 Pictures of Bird Life The Golden Eagle and Bonellis Eagle are confined tothe sierras during the nesting season, and nothing was seenof either of them. The next day was spent steaming up the river to Seville^where a stay was made of several days. The scenery, asseen from the Guadalquivir, can hardly be des
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . )reed very early, beginning in immense primary feather was lying on the ground below,the only evidence seen of the Glossy Ibis {Plegadis falcinellus) and iNest.(The bird in front is a Buff-backed Heron.) 292 Pictures of Bird Life The Golden Eagle and Bonellis Eagle are confined tothe sierras during the nesting season, and nothing was seenof either of them. The next day was spent steaming up the river to Seville^where a stay was made of several days. The scenery, asseen from the Guadalquivir, can hardly be described as interesting or picturesqueto anybody but an orni-thologist. To us, however,tliere was mucli to watchfor and plenty to interest. AVliere the river dividesand forms the Isla ]Mayor^\e coidd from the bridgelook across a fiat expanseof marsli and shallowwater, in whicli were stand-ing whole battalions ofFlamingoes in Hocks ofhundreds. Here and thereon stacks and buildingscould be seen Storks standing by and sitting on their the sliores and tlie edge of the water, whenshallow enough, were })lack with hundreds of cattle drinking,for this is a famous grazing-ground for tlie
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