The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-28
LONG WINTER MAPS.
WAYS IN WHICH VARIOUS ANIMALS
SPEND THE COLD WEATHER.

Marvellous Manner In which the
Functions of Life SIumber Bird
EmiGrants With Wonderful In
stinct For Self Preservation.
The devices of animal life to bridge
over the winter season and their ways
and habits during this time present an in
teresting indeed fascinating, page OF ma
ture, writes Charles Frederick Holder.
At the approach of winter animals are
affected in various ways. In the north
all the reptiles-snakes. lizards. frogs
and toads, a vast acknowledgment in
a most miraculous manner. The snakes
enter holes and crcvices projecting them.
selves as far into the earth as possible,
and. coiled tightly, assume 4 condition.
state of coma, in which they remain until
the heat of the sun comes TO waken
them the following spring, when they APP
pear voracious and eager for prey to re-
habilitate them physically after months
of fasting. The frogs plunge down into
the mud of the ponds where they have
made music during the long summer. and
the same is true of turtles. Lizards af'
feet the same places as snakes and when
taken out at this time are apparently life,
less.
This is the case with the reptiles of
inv I'sle!n anu i,iiuuie s'".es VI nCieN
But on the Pacific slope, in southern Cal
ifornia, in the same latitude as the above,
a different condition holds. Here-and
the San Gabriel valley may be taken as
an eXample-the lizards are subjected to
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