I have spent many hours hunting for its nest on the high tundras of central Newfoundland, where it breeds commonly, and secured only one set of eggs.
No one who travels over the flat green plains and tundraswould have any idea of the mysteries and upheavals that lie hidden beneath the sward.
They make the great moss tundras in some places utterly uninhabitable, and force even the reindeer to seek the shelter and the cooler atmosphere of the mountains.
The intervening country consisted of great moss tundras impassable in summer, and perfectly destitute of timber; and that portion of it which lay north-east of the last settlement was utterly uninhabitable on account of the absence of wood.
On the Siberian tundras and in Lapland there are still in use two sorts of huts; one, the smoke-hut, is precisely like a bee-hive habitation.
In Muskrat Land dim streams divide The tundrasbelted by the sky.
The great snow-storms of the subarctic steppes are as destructive as those of the more northerly tundras and often result in great loss of life.
There also appear the ermine and the arctic wolverene; in fact, almost all the characteristic forms of tundra life except the polar bear, which only enters the northern tundras in the summer season.
To the east were the plains of Bohemia and the vast lowland region stretching northeastward to the tundras and eastward to the steppes, through which came the great migrations of tundra and steppe life.
Near Wuerzburg, Bavaria, there is a fauna buried in the 'loess' containing twenty species of mammals of the tundrasand steppes, together with the bison and the urus.
Its nesting haunts are the barren grounds and tundras near, and the beaches of, the Arctic Ocean.
The breeding-grounds of the Gray Plover are on the tundras and barren grounds in the Arctic regions of the Old and New Worlds, above the limits of forest growth.
Both regions have a vast sweep of monotonous tundras at the north and both become fertile granaries in the center.
South of the tundras the grass-lands have a still greater advantage over the forests.
It is temperature which causes the moss and lichens of the barren tundras in the far north to be replaced by orchids, twining vines, and mahogany trees near the equator.
Where the growing season becomes so short that even the hardiest trees disappear, grassy tundras replace the forest.
This region is composed of vast tundras or marshes and the balance of the entire province is covered with almost impenetrable forests of pine and evergreen of different varieties.
Great areas of these tundras are nothing more than a thickly woven matting of grasses and weeds overgrowing creeks or ponds and many a lonely traveler has been known to disappear in one of these marshes never to be seen again.
The tundras or marshes are very treacherous, for the traveler marching along on what appears to be a rough strip of solid ground, suddenly may feel the same give way and he is precipitated into a bath of ice cold muddy water.
In a few days they would be opening, and the tundras would be white carpets.
He, with a few others, would prove to the world that the millions of acres of treeless tundras of the north were not the cast-off ends of the earth.
In these moments he became conscious of the evening song of the tundrasand the soft splendor of the miles reaching out ahead of them.
The old thrill ran in Stampede's blood, and its infectiousness caught Alan, so that he forgot Mary Standish, and all else but the miles that lay between them and the mighty tundras beyond the Seward Peninsula.
And the tundras would always be his home, because his heart was there.
Spring was breaking up there, and it was warm on the tundras and the southern slopes, and the pussy-willow buds were popping out of their coats like corn from a hopper.
Trained to the varied night whisperings of the tundras Alan's ears caught faint sounds which his companion did not hear.
They had come in from the timber-naked plateaux and high ranges where the herds were feeding, and from the outlying shacks of the tundras to greet him.
I have been thinking of you back there, every hour, every step," he said, making a gesture toward the tundras over which he had come.
If Graham won, only the unmapped tundras would remember this night, as the deep, dark kloof remembered in its gloom the other tragedy of more than half a century ago.
Tundras then spread over the meadow-lands and remnants of forests, whilst arctic animals replaced the large ungulates and carnivores which had wandered far away from their native southern home.
He is of opinion that a great portion of Northern Europe, where their remains have been discovered, must have possessed tundras and steppes, as we find them nowadays in Siberia, and a climate similar to that of Northern Asia.
To the north of the Subarctic Forest plain, as already described, occur the desolate tracts known in Canada as the Barren Grounds, which form a part or merge into the tundras bordering the Arctic Ocean.
This arctic coastal plain is known in part as the Barren Grounds, but in general may be designated as a tundra, as over extensive areas it is similar to the still greater tundras of Siberia.
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