Introductory 3 
burn, in winter shelterless from biting blasts off snow-clad slerras, 
present precisely that landscape of desperate desolation that 
always results from a maximum of sunshine combined with a 
minimum of rainfall. <A desiccated downland, khaki-colour or 
calcareous by turn, but bare (save for a few weeks in spring) of 
green thing, naked of bush or shrub, innocent even of orass. 
Types or SpanisH Brrp-Lire 
LAMMERGEYER (Gypaétus barbatus) 
Whose home is in the wildest sierras—a weird dragon-like bird-form ; expanse, 9 feet. 
[Formerly reputed to carry off babies to its eyrie. ] 
Not a tree grows so far as eye can reach, not a watercourse but 
is stone-dry and leaves the impress that it has been so since time 
began. Oh, it is an unlovely landscape, that central plateau. 
’Twere ungrateful, nevertheless (and unjust too), to forget that 
here we are journeying in a glory of atmosphere, brilliant in 
ageressive radiance that annihilates distance and revels in space. 
Though patches of vine-growth be lost in the monotony of tawny 
expanse, mud-built hamlet and village church indistinguishable 
