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[any ^f-%hem give you the impression that they are on short rations or 
else slenderizing in the modern fashion. In the dry. season, which com- 
oT Q^yUi'ndL 
»art of the yeaiy iaqaiBir t here is no moisture^any- 
at the animaIS’4^||^^ for water, ^ 
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ttle piles of bones^th ^ horned headJ^foi ■■■ 
Perhaps the iguanas can last through from one 
wherarSHaone 
every little while 
wet season to another, or else, like many desert animals, get along 
with very little water at any time, but they do drink greedily at times 
in captivity 
The finches) and no doubt the rest of the small bird life of ( q 
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t least) have found A a rinl .iH uiuin the yaw lilf „uul gj 
A ''fay u*«*m I * O) i /*? «r 
-for" the moioture which i t c uu 1 W-H-a, Apparently whenever a cactus suffers 
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an injury by the fall of a leaf or "branch" , which may leave a small 
area of the trunk "unguarded by spines, the finches ge t to work cCT 
n . |t<*$ 
! «ml ■’begin excavatj^ and later tunnel into the "body of the plant* 
down into the trunk and upwards even into the flattened leaves until Ho u^or^ 
a mere shell remains 
ndjforja 
r [cCTe*~ / 
it totters-kwer 
weight of its own supe rst rue ture . w E ^h /t he— 
to become another of the dead cacti, w e s aw- rathor/f requ e n^ ly in - th e 
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part of South Seymour j My f Wj e i I uiL . / / , jjX- 
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