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Preface tOjGerman Edition, - - v 



PREFATORYf NoTE TO THE ENGLISH TrAT^SLATION, - - - - Vli 



INTEODUCTOEY ESSAY BY THE EDITOE, - - xv 



THE BIED-BEEGS OF LAPLAND. 



The legend of Scandinavia's origin — The harvest of the sea — The doves 

 of Scandinavia — Eider-holms and bird-bergs— The nesting of th^ 

 eider-duck — Eazor-bills and robber-gulls — Millions of birds — (Notes, 

 pp. 565-566), ... 33 



THE TUNDEA AND ITS ANIMAL LIEE. 



High tundra and low tundra — The jewels of the tundra — The flora of the 

 tundra — The Arctic fox — The lemming — TTie reindeer — The birds of 

 the tundra — Mosquitoes — (Notes, pp. 566-568), .... 63 



THE ASIATIC STEPPES AND THEIE FAUNA. 



The steppe in summer and in winter— The coming of spring — The rendez- 

 vous in the reeds — The marsh-harrier — The home of larks — Jerboa 

 and souslik — The archar sheep — The kulan and the ancestry of the 

 horse— (Notes, pp. 568-571), - - - - - - 86 



THE FOEESTS AND SPOET OF SIBEEIA. 



An ice-wilderness or not — The forest zone — Axe and fire — The pines — 

 Hunting and trapping — The elk, the wolf, and the lynx — Sable 

 and other furred beasts — Bear -hunting and bear -stories — (Notes, 

 pp. 571-573), - 120 



THE STEPPES OF INNEE AFEICA. 



The progress of the seasons — A tropical thunderstorm — Night in the 

 steppes — Spiders, scorpions, and snakes — Mudfish and other sleepers 

 — Cleopatra's asp — Geckos — The children of the air — The bateleur 

 eagle — The ostrich — The night-jar — The mammals of the steppe — 

 Stampede before a steppe-fire — (Notes, pp. 573-576), - 168 



