. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. FIELD MOUSE OR CAMPAGNOL. The little Rodents so amusingly depicted in this illustration are so numerous in many parts of Europe and Asia that they work sad havoc in the fields, and frequently destroy a large part of the crops. {.-!>- icola tin o produced in the clouds, was not known. Other authors simply copy the account of the bishop, and Linnaeus was the first who truly described the Lem- ming (in his Swedish treatise of 1740) according to nat
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. FIELD MOUSE OR CAMPAGNOL. The little Rodents so amusingly depicted in this illustration are so numerous in many parts of Europe and Asia that they work sad havoc in the fields, and frequently destroy a large part of the crops. {.-!>- icola tin o produced in the clouds, was not known. Other authors simply copy the account of the bishop, and Linnaeus 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 ^HKiJmb^wB • \ 1860 especially on the S^^^l Dovenfjeld, and so have- been able to become fa- miliar with them by my own experience. The Lemming a 1 >ie a 111- 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 n
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