. Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument and the Neighboring Region, Arizona . icult to reach even from the canyons below. Fromthe higher peaks can be seen, far to the northward, the imposing lineof the Mogollons, stretching as far as the eye can reach. The clearness of the Arizona atmosphere, permitting easy visionover distances unheard of elsewhere, enables one to obtain in suchplaces as this, through concrete examples before the eye, fuller reali-zation of the characteristics and peculiarities of the country than canbe learned from many pages of written descriptions and explanations.
. Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument and the Neighboring Region, Arizona . icult to reach even from the canyons below. Fromthe higher peaks can be seen, far to the northward, the imposing lineof the Mogollons, stretching as far as the eye can reach. The clearness of the Arizona atmosphere, permitting easy visionover distances unheard of elsewhere, enables one to obtain in suchplaces as this, through concrete examples before the eye, fuller reali-zation of the characteristics and peculiarities of the country than canbe learned from many pages of written descriptions and Mogollon Divide as a factor in distribution becomes more of areality when it is actually in view, imposing its presence across thewhole horizon. That the desert and the mountain top are differentworlds, as far as most animals and plants are concerned, is broughtstrongly home to one when, sitting in the cool shade of pine trees, helooks down into a scorching valley, but a few miles away in actual dis-tance, and with absolutely no physical obstruction to uninterrupted PLATE Photograph by Southern Pacific Co. A. LOOKING EASTWARD FROM FORESTED SUMMIT OF THE SIERRA ANCHA. A suggestion of the contrasts to be found within a relatively short distance. The blisteringdesert plains and buttes appear to be scarcely more than a stones throw from the coolpine woods.
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