. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. 254 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA. HEAD OF GUANACO plains of Patagonia. In my experience they were most numerous in the Canadon Davis, in the neighbourhood of Bahia Camerones, and on the high basaltic tablelands to the south of Lake Buenos Aires. At the base of the Cordillera and in some of the river- valleys under the edge of the moun- tains, the range of the guanaco crosses m^pic "^^^"^ ^ '*^B^ that of the huemul. W^ '• ' '-d ^1^ I do not think, However, that the guanacos ever enter the forest, althoug-h I have seen them in the

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. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. 254 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA. HEAD OF GUANACO plains of Patagonia. In my experience they were most numerous in the Canadon Davis, in the neighbourhood of Bahia Camerones, and on the high basaltic tablelands to the south of Lake Buenos Aires. At the base of the Cordillera and in some of the river- valleys under the edge of the moun- tains, the range of the guanaco crosses m^pic _ "^^^"^ ^ '*^B^ that of the huemul. W^ '• ' '-d ^1^ I do not think, However, that the guanacos ever enter the forest, althoug-h I have seen them in the open patches amongst the lower As the seasons change they move from higher to lower ground, but these migrations are limited, and a white guanaco has been observed year after year in the same neighbourhood. During the time I spent at Lake Argentine— from February i to May 15—I saw but few of these animals, for at that season all the herds migrate to the high pampa. A herd four or five hundred strong inhabited the higher plateaus of Mount Frias. FitzRoy, in his "Voyages of the Adventure and the Beagle" writes, " Do the guanacos approach the river to drink when they are dying ? or are the bones and remains of animals eaten by lions or by Indians ? or are they washed together by floods ? Certain it is that they are remarkably numerous near the banks of the river (Santa Cruz), but not so elsewhere." It is true that, although one comes upon skeletons of these animals upon the pampas, they are not crowded together as they are in the canadones of the rivers or by the lakes near water. At the edge of a lagoon at the eastern end of Mystery Plain I saw a great number of skeletons in one place, possibly the very ones noted by wooded parts of the Cordillera.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the ori