. Idle days in Patagonia. Natural history. The Plains of Patagonia. 213 others were lidge-like and stretched away in league- long terraces, with other terraces beyoud; and all alike were clothed in the grey everlasting thorny vegetation. How grey it all was ! hardly less so near at hand than on the haze-wrapped horizon, where the hills were dim and the outline blurred by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle- Tlie Plains of Patagonia. like, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ; and so long as it would continue stationed mo
. Idle days in Patagonia. Natural history. The Plains of Patagonia. 213 others were lidge-like and stretched away in league- long terraces, with other terraces beyoud; and all alike were clothed in the grey everlasting thorny vegetation. How grey it all was ! hardly less so near at hand than on the haze-wrapped horizon, where the hills were dim and the outline blurred by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle- Tlie Plains of Patagonia. like, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ; and so long as it would continue stationed motionless before me my eyes would remain involuntarily fixed on it, just as one keeps his eyes on a bright light shining in the gloom ; for the whiteness of the hawk seemed to exercise a fascinating power on the vision, so surpassingly bright was it by contrast iu. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922. New York, D. Appleton
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