A Day After the Great-Bustard in Spain. 1913.

For Sale is a Full Page removed from "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 14th, 1913," showing the Following 7 Drawings for "A Day after the Great-Bustard  in Spain."

   a- "Birds on the Wing !"
   b- The Shikari and his assistant.
   c- A Look through the Glasses.
   d- On the Quivive.
   e- "Any Luck ?"
    f- Well Over  !
   g- The Prime.

From Seville to the Straits of Gibraltar and from the Guadalquivir to the mountains of the Pinal is the home of the great-bustard.  In the summer months her resorts to the lowlands by the riverside, and can frequently be seen in the same enclosure as a herd of fighting bulls, whilst for the rest of the year he inhabits the rolling corn-lands only a few miles to the south-east of his summer quarters.  Bustard are shot by the native with old-fashioned flint-locks and muzzle-loaders, from June to September, at dawn, when they come to drink at the overflow of some well or water-hole.  A more common way to circumvent the birds is to walk up the standing corn just before harvest (about the end of July), and shoot the young birds as they rise.  A few also are bagged by driving, a method which necessitates a thorough knowledge of the country, great patience, and the gift of hiding oneself "behind nothing" on the part of the guns.

Condition is Very Good.