. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. g sport. The Red and Fallow Deer, and the Roe- I 232 EUROPEAN ANIMALS. buck of our own country and many parts of Europe, are much smallerand have highly branched antlers. The Reindeer of the Arctic regionsis remarkable in that both males and females have antlers. Its hoofis singularly broad and deeply cleft, so as to spread well over the ice andsnow. It is very hardy, and abl
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. g sport. The Red and Fallow Deer, and the Roe- I 232 EUROPEAN ANIMALS. buck of our own country and many parts of Europe, are much smallerand have highly branched antlers. The Reindeer of the Arctic regionsis remarkable in that both males and females have antlers. Its hoofis singularly broad and deeply cleft, so as to spread well over the ice andsnow. It is very hardy, and able to go without food for several dayswithout injury. As a domestic animal, it is invaluable to the Laplander,being able to drag a sledge eighty miles a day for days together, with-out apparent fatigue. They migrate continually in search of food intheir long winter, and depend largely on lichens found on tree boughsand under the snow on the ground. The Bats, or birdlike Mammals, are represented in Europe by theHorse-shoe Bats, Avith appendages to the nose from which the name isderived, and by the long-eared Common Bats, which are relatives, the Insectivorous order, are found everywhere in Europe. 20. FLAMINGO. 21. PELICAN. except the North, in the form of Hedgehogs, covered with spiny typically insect-eaters, they by no means object to frogs, mice,and even small snakes, being impervious to attack owing to their power ofcoiling themselves up. The Mole is a less seen but no less active buiTOw-ing member of the group; and Shrews, often known as Shrew-mice, areextremely abundant, and are capable of killing and eating each other, anunnecessary act of carnage, as they are themselves so ruthlessly slaugh-tered by cats, weasels, and owls. The Eodents, or gnawing animals, exist in this country and theEuropean continent in the well-known forms of Squin^els, Marmots (19),Beavers, Dormice, Rats and Mice, Voles, Lemmings (3), Porcupines (27),and Hares and Rab
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