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Mr. Ambrose A. Lane — Field-Notes 



as he states, of a series of hilly slopes, covered with loose soft 

 sand and utterly devoid of vegetation. It contains little 

 signs of animal life, with the exception of a few sea-birds 

 and some Turkey-Vultures, which frequent the beach. Two 



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Pa/npo.'^^.- de Sacaya] Pampa 



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EouTE OF Me. Lane in Tarapaca. 



days later Mr. Lane left Iquique for the Oficina of San 

 Pablo, some thirty miles in the interior. The country on 

 this journey was of the same character as that of the coast — 

 completely sterile and destitute of animal and vegetable life. 

 Almost the only birds met with were Muscisaxicola rufivertex 

 and Thinocorus orbignesius. On January 15th Mr. Lane 

 started for Pica, about 45 miles further off, and arrived there 

 about noon next day, passing Canchones about half-way. 

 Here some groves of trees are met with, but the rest of the 

 way was entirely desert. At Pica Mr. Lane found a stretch 

 of verdure about a mile and a half long, well planted with 

 fruit-trees and evergreens. Here the Song-Sparrow {Zono- 



