. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . est, as far as the plains. I haveoften seen him in Holderness, N. H., and he is com-mon at Profile Lake, Franconia Notch, 1ST. H. The nest of the flying squirrel is in a hole in atree. The female bears from four to six youngabout the first of April or later. When capturedand tamed the little ones make most charming to the woodchuck, the flying squirrelone of the most profoundsleepers of all hibernatinganimals. He retires tohis nest early in Novem-ber, and does not reap-pear until the latter part ofMarch
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . est, as far as the plains. I haveoften seen him in Holderness, N. H., and he is com-mon at Profile Lake, Franconia Notch, 1ST. H. The nest of the flying squirrel is in a hole in atree. The female bears from four to six youngabout the first of April or later. When capturedand tamed the little ones make most charming to the woodchuck, the flying squirrelone of the most profoundsleepers of all hibernatinganimals. He retires tohis nest early in Novem-ber, and does not reap-pear until the latter part ofMarch. The big relative of the gfiia red squirrel—an animal made of coarser clay— The Gray Squirrel. J is the Northern graysquirrel {Sciurus carolinensis leucotis). This activefellow, familiar in many of the city parks, hibernatesonly when the weather is extremely cold, and thenfor no great length of time. So long as the mercurywill stand above 16° the gray squirrel will venture outin the cold; but when it drops below that, and thechances of food on the snow-covered ground are. SMALL FOLK WITH LIVELY FEET. 277
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