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Plate I. — Members of a snow fauna. 



An example of the possesion, by a group ol different animals living in the same 

 locality, of common features, which enable litem to support life there (see pp. 

 St", 54 i ). Note tin: iliii k, white clothing, which kerps them warm and renders 



tli em in s| iic 1 1 ous. Tin.' .mi in ils shown, which are diawn from an exhibit in 



the Ihitish Museum (Natural Histoiy), are the Arctic lax. Stoat or Ermine, 

 Weasel, Mountain hare, Willow en, use, and Ptarmigan. They erne from the 

 ,.niih .,1 Ni.ibmv, an. I assume this co»ering in winter, Others, such as the 

 Polar bear, Sn iwy owl, and (iieenland falcon, living amid perpetual snow-, arc 

 clad in Lhe ami ■ way all the yen on, lid. 



