. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. FIELD MOUSE OR CAMPAGNOL so numerous in many parts of Europe and large part of the crops. {Arvicola arvalis.) produced in the clouds, was not known. Other authors simply copy the account of the bishop, and Linnasus was the first who truly described the Lem- ming (in his Swedish treatise of 1740) according to nature and with so many details that there is very little to add to his description. I had the pleasure myself of encountering a great many Lemmings in
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. FIELD MOUSE OR CAMPAGNOL so numerous in many parts of Europe and large part of the crops. {Arvicola arvalis.) produced in the clouds, was not known. Other authors simply copy the account of the bishop, and Linnasus was the first who truly described the Lem- ming (in his Swedish treatise of 1740) according to nature and with so many details that there is very little to add to his description. I had the pleasure myself of encountering a great many Lemmings in i860 especially on the Dovenfjeld, and so have been able to become fa- miliar with them by my own experience. The Lemming a 1 h e ani- Charming mals are Animal. charming little creatures. They look like small Marmots or Hamsters, resembling the latter particularly in their habits. They take up their abode in the less moist portions of the marshes which cover so large a part of Norway. There they domesticate in small hollows under stones or in the moss; and they may often be seen roaming between the little hillocks which --rise out of the swamp. One seldom sees beaten paths extending from one of their holes to an- other; permanent passages are used by them only to avoid wandering through unbroken snow during the winter. They are lively and active during both day and night. Their usual method of locomotion is a rapid tripping walk, though Man can easily outrun and capture them. Water they shun with a certain degree of fear, and if one throws them into a large vessel of water or into a small stream they squeak and growl very angrily and try to regain the dry land as soon as possible. They often betray them- selves, for frequently, as they sit in their holes so well hidden that they certainly would not be noticed by a passer-by, the appearance of a human being excites them to such a degree that they can not remain silent. A loud grunting and squeaking, after the fashion of Guinea P
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