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without regard to the stings of the bees, from which 
their thick coats doubtless protect them. 
REFERENCES. Kobelt’s book, already mentioned, gives a full account 
of the taiga animals, and descriptions will also be found in Brehm’s 
From North Pole to Equator (in translation, London, 1896). As the 
inhabitants of the taiga are mostly those characteristic of the temperate 
regions of the Northern Hemisphere, full accounts of them will be found 
in the books mentioned at the end of chapter x. Most descriptions of 
journeys through Siberia also give some account of the taiga animals. 
