Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 226
d in repose that it can be handled without offering resistance or attempting escape. The food of the Dormouse consists of various fruits and seeds, such as acorns, nuts, haws, and corn. As the animal is one of the hibernaters, it is in the habit of gathering together a supply of dried food, to… … COMMON DORMOUSE.—Muscardinus avellanarius. indeed, the weather should happen to be peculiarly mild, but it is of very great ser- vice in the earlier part of the spring, when the Dormouse is awake and lively, and there are- as yet no fresh fruits on which it could feed. The Dormouse is rather…
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