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Title: The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Bannerman, David Armitage, 1886-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the groundbeneath the heather was everywhere carpeted withmosses and ferns. Eagerly I listened for the noteof any of the birds I had come so far to find-—theLaurel Pigeons, the Pale Redbreast, the TenerifeanGoldcrest, or even the Canarian Chaffinch. Surely itwould be difficult to find a more inviting retreat inwhich, at any rate, the last three mentioned, andcertainly the island Blackbird, should have had theirhome. Absolute silence reigned, not a bird was insight! I have ridden many miles in the Canary Islandsin search of birds, but I never remember such a dis-appointing journey (from the point of view of the bird-life observed) as this proved to be. In the valley ofSan Sebastian I had found birds exceptionally scarce,but put that down to the great lack of vegetation inthis very uninteresting locality. But now we were pass-ing through really fine evergreen woods, a sufficientlywonderful experience in the Canary Islands to warrantthe highest hopes rising in an ornithologists breast!
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