1905-6. Two Days at Caño Dulce (one Gun)
| Dec. 17, 1905. | Feb. 17, 1906. | |
| Wigeon | 235 | 47 |
| Shovelers | 10 | 13 |
| Pintail | 18 | 62 |
| Gadwall | 6 | 0 |
| Teal | 2 | 6 |
| Marbled Duck | 1 | 0 |
| Geese | 1 | 2 |
| 273 | 130 |
The total on December 17 represents the “Record,” and was made (as was that with geese, see p. 131) by B. F. B.
The whole of the above records refer to flight-shooting with a 12-bore gun.
Following is a list of the different ducks shot by one gun during two consecutive seasons:—
| 1902-3. | 1903-4. | |
| Wigeon | 277 | 230 |
| Pintail | 267 | 28 |
| Mallard | 9 | 42 |
| Gadwall | 21 | 36 |
| Shovelers | 195 | 32 |
| Teal | 276 | 269 |
| Garganey | 2 | 1 |
| Marbled Duck | 4 | 51 |
| Pochard[22] | 1 | 0 |
| Pochard, Crested | 1 | 0 |
| Tufted Duck | 0 | 1 |
| White-faced Duck | 0 | 1 |
| Unenumerated | 191 | 0 |
| 1244 | 726 |
CHAPTER XIII
THE SPANISH IBEX
IN the Spanish ibex Spain possesses not only a species peculiar to the Peninsula, but a game-animal of the first rank.
Fortunate it is that this sentence can be written in the present tense instead of (as but a few years ago appeared probable) in the past.