. From North pole to equator: studies of wild life and scenes in many lands. Animal behavior; Birds; Tundras; Ethnology; Birds. 76 FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. drowned in the water, or are shattered at the foot of the cliffs; the remainder speed on; other hundreds and thousands fall victims to the voracity of Arctic and red foxes, wolves and gluttons, rough- legged buzzards and ravens, owls and skuas which have followed them; the survivors pay no heed. Where these go, how they end, none can say, but certain it is that the tundra behind them is as if. ^?^^t3^ Kg. 8.—The Reindeer (rorandus rangif
. From North pole to equator: studies of wild life and scenes in many lands. Animal behavior; Birds; Tundras; Ethnology; Birds. 76 FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. drowned in the water, or are shattered at the foot of the cliffs; the remainder speed on; other hundreds and thousands fall victims to the voracity of Arctic and red foxes, wolves and gluttons, rough- legged buzzards and ravens, owls and skuas which have followed them; the survivors pay no heed. Where these go, how they end, none can say, but certain it is that the tundra behind them is as if. ^?^^t3^ Kg. 8.—The Reindeer (rorandus rangifer). dead, that a number of years pass ere the few who have remained behind, and have managed to survive, slowly multijply, and visibly re-people their native fields. ^^ A third animal characteristic of the tundra is the reindeer. Those who know this deer, in itself by no means beautiful, only in a state of captivity and slavery, can form no idea of what it is under natural conditions. Here in the tundra one learns to appreciate the reindeer, to recognize and value him as a member of, a family which he does not disgrace. He belongs to the tundra, body and. 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 original Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Thomson, Margaret R. , tr; Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933, ed. London [etc. ] Blackie & Son, Limited
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