It is curious that two modern instances are on record of hybernating Corncrakes, though this is certainly as migratory a species with us as the Hirundinidae.
Mr Smith's hypothesis, that they are "probably hybernating for the winter," will not account for their torpidity in June and July.
The winter's lethargy of hybernating warm-blooded vertebrates is much more readily interrupted in the earlier part of the season than in the middle and latter part.
The annual return to the hybernating den is then a fixed unalterable instinct, like the autumnal migration of some birds to a warmer latitude.
The hybernating butterflies are now flying more freely than before, and, if the weather is bright and warm for the time of year, a few freshly emerged species may be seen.
It may be found feeding in the autumn, or hybernating in the crevices of the bark of trees in winter.
If the weather is very severe, hardly an insect will be found on the wing; but a mild January will sometimes entice the Brimstone Butterfly (Rhamni) and some of the hybernating Vanessas from their winter quarters.
MARCH Many of the hybernating larvae will come out during March if the weather is mild, and commence to feed; and the young caterpillars will begin to appear from the eggs of the early moths already named.
The November list, besides some of the hybernating species previously mentioned, include: =Bombyces.
Hybernating moths may also be met with, on the wing if the weather is mild, or sleeping in their sheltered nooks during the frosts.
Yet though these insects, which I shall shortly advert to as exceptions to the general rule, were thus active, the heat was not sufficient to induce their hybernating brethren to quit their retreats.
The reasoners upon torpidity have almost all confined their view to the hybernating quadrupeds, as the marmot, dormouse, &c.
Here then was every condition fulfilled that the theory I am opposing can require; consequently, according to that theory, such a state of the atmosphere should have driven every hybernating insect to its winter quarters.
That the torpidity of insects, as well as of other hybernating animals, is caused by cold, is unquestionable.
The Clouded Yellow has been found hybernating in the chink of an old wall at the end of February, but I am not aware of its coming out again in the spring, like the Brimstone.
She does not, like other hybernating bears, seek out a cave or hollow tree; for in the desolate land she inhabits, ofttimes neither one nor the other could be found.
The Northern Indians and Eskimos capture hundreds of these hybernating bears every season--taking both them and their cubs at the same time.
All her denials of him since had been fibbing to herself, they had been making the best of things, they had been the hybernating sleep from which Love awakes as a giant refreshed!
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