[69] Common British birds we exclude from notice, or might fill a page with swarming goldfinches, robins, wrens, chaffinch, blackbird, stonechat, whitethroats, tree-pipits, titlarks (the last three on passage), blackcap, garden-warbler, whinchat, redstart, and a host more. [70] The African bush-cuckoos, or coucals (_Centropus_), certainly build their own nests; but they are only related nominally, and the connection is remote. [71] In Egypt the hooded crow (_Corvus cornix_) is invariably the cuckoo's dupe; in Algeria, _Pica mauretanica_. [72] We find a note that one Bean-Goose was shot on November 27, 1896--weight 5-1/4 lbs. [73] See the elaborate monograph on _The Geese of Europe and Asia_, by M. Serge Alphéraky of St. Petersburg (London, Rowland Ward). [74] One such note may be given as an example:-- "1903.--Examined 40 geese shot January 1 and 2. Legs varied from white and pale flesh-colour to pale yellowish and pink, adults all of the latter colour. Beaks vary from whitish or flesh-colour, through yellow, up to bright orange. A few of the geese, mostly the smaller, young birds, were nearly pure white below: others heavily spotted or barred with black: nearly all (old and young) show signs of a 'white-front.'" [75] In Jutland we found some pintails' nests rather cunningly concealed in holes upon open grassy islets in marine lagoons not unlike our Spanish marismas; others were on bare ground, though occasionally hidden among thistles. Here also the eggs numbered eight or nine. See _Ibis_, 1894, p. 349. * * * * * Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: averge depth=> average depth {pg 302} produces these montrosities=> produces these monstrosities {pg 348} secured a specimen of two=> secured a specimen or two {pg 360} are always strictly cleanly=> are always strictly clean {pg 368} Préjavelsky, Russian explorer, 276=> Préjavalsky, Russian explorer, 276 {index} End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Unexplored Spain, by Abel Chapman and Walter J. Buck