. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ation anduniform climate, added to the similarity in their altitudeand consequent absence of variety as regards vegetationzones, these barren outliers of the Sahara are bestconsidered as one distinct faunal area. When we turn to the Western Islands we find a verydifferent state of things : without exception they areall mountainous, their summits varying from 4400 feetin the small island of Gomera, to 12,180 feet in thesnow-clad peak of Tenerife. The islands in
. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ation anduniform climate, added to the similarity in their altitudeand consequent absence of variety as regards vegetationzones, these barren outliers of the Sahara are bestconsidered as one distinct faunal area. When we turn to the Western Islands we find a verydifferent state of things : without exception they areall mountainous, their summits varying from 4400 feetin the small island of Gomera, to 12,180 feet in thesnow-clad peak of Tenerife. The islands in this groupare fairly prolific, in direct contrast to the arid wastewhich covers the greater part of the Eastern in Hierro water is fairly abundant, and in con-sequence cultivation has taken place over a considerablearea. Certainly in parts of Tenerife and Gran Canada,in what we will call the Maritime Zone, we meet withvery much the same type of country as we found inFuerteventura, where desert-loving plants such asLaunoea spinosa, Plocama pendula, and various speciesof Euphorbia eke out a waterless existence, but in. Guimar, Tenerife—-under the shade of the mountains.
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