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DESERT TREMrETEU UrEEElNCII. 
green colour in wlrich they appear to travellers who pass 
these land-marks of navigation in the height of summer. 
The Desert Trumpeter is found most plentifully in 
Lanzarote and Fuertaventura, and most sparingly in the 
great Canary Island. I found it in fact spread over 
the whole eastern part of the Canary Islands, and have 
reason to believe that it may inhabit the more western 
parts also. 
On the 1st. of April, 1856, I found it in an excursion 
to Caldeca von Bandama, on the high-road which leads 
from Ciudad de las Palmas to the Vegas, and welcomed 
it joyfully as an old acquaintance one comes upon un- 
expectedly. It is seen, but less plentifully, in the neigh- 
bourhood of the principal town, but at the time of 
migration it appears in great numbers in the harbour, 
Puerta de la Luz. I have also observed it in the 
districts of Jinamar, Cariizal, and Juan Grande, and 
nowhere more abundantly than in Arguineguin, where 
it frequents in flocks the tombs and ruins of a town 
which at one time had been plundered by the Spaniards, 
which now covers a cape or promontory with rocks and 
grottoes, and fig-trees in the back ground, and com- 
mands an incomparable panorama over the sea tow'ards 
the peak of Teneriffe, 
It also breeds in the islands of the western group, 
since the thick growth of wood has driven it back 
there, but it has not been seen hitherto on Teneriffe, 
Gomera, Palma, or Ferro.” 
‘^The country inhabited by the Desert Trumpeter 
must above all things be without trees, and in the hot 
regions of the sunny coast. It prefers stony places, 
where in the noon-day the wind trembles over burning 
stones, and by the glimmer, and reflected light of which 
the traveller is almost blinded. Only a little grass grows 
