...is slow. On two occasions I saw some os- triches swimming across the Santa Cruz river, where its course was about four hundred yards wide, and the str... ...rage, but he asserted that more than one fe- male deposited them. At Santa Cruz we saw several of these birds. They were excessively wary: I think the... ...by Lichtenstein, Swainson, Erichson, and Richardson. The section from Vera Cruz to Acapulco, given by Humboldt in the Polit. Essay on Kingdom of N. Sp... ... herds of from half a dozen to thirty in each; but on the banks of the St. Cruz we saw one herd which must have contained at least five hundred. They ... ...ear to have favourite spots for lying down to die. On the banks of the St. Cruz, in certain circumscribed spaces, which were generally bushy and all n... ... reason of this, but I may ob- serve, that the wounded guanacos at the St. Cruz in- variably walked towards the river. At St. Jago in the Cape de Verd... ...Rio Colo- rado to between 600 and 700 nautical miles south- ward, at Santa Cruz (a river a little south of St. Julian), it reaches to the foot of the ... ...are left in the form of flat gravel-capped hills. The upper plain of Santa Cruz slopes up to a height of 3000 feet at the foot of the Cordillera. I ha... ... pe- riod when icebergs transported boulders over the upper plain of Santa Cruz, the elevation has been at least 1500 feet. Nor has Patagonia been aff...