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without regard to the stings of the bees, from which 

 their thick coats doubtless protect them. 



Befebenoes. Kobelt's book, already mentioned, gives a full account 

 of the taiga animals, and descriptions will also be found in Brehm's 

 'Friym North Pole to Equator (in translation, London, 1896). As the 

 inhabitants of the taiga are mostly those characteristic of the temperate 

 regions of the Korthern Hemisphere, fuU 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. 



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