Natural history of animals; . GNAWERS. Common Striped Squirrel, or Chipmunk, is about fiveinches long to the tail, and the color is yellowish graywith five black stripes on the back and sides. In au-. Fig. 8S. — Striped Squirrel, or Chipmunk. tumn the Chipmunks may be seen with their cheek-pouches full of nuts or grain, which they store up forwinter, at which time they remain in their holes. Gophers. The Striped Gopher, of Michigan and westward, is avery beautiful animal, about the size of the Red Squir-rel, of a dark brown color, with light lines and rows oflight spots. It lives in burrows, a
Natural history of animals; . GNAWERS. Common Striped Squirrel, or Chipmunk, is about fiveinches long to the tail, and the color is yellowish graywith five black stripes on the back and sides. In au-. Fig. 8S. — Striped Squirrel, or Chipmunk. tumn the Chipmunks may be seen with their cheek-pouches full of nuts or grain, which they store up forwinter, at which time they remain in their holes. Gophers. The Striped Gopher, of Michigan and westward, is avery beautiful animal, about the size of the Red Squir-rel, of a dark brown color, with light lines and rows oflight spots. It lives in burrows, and when alarmed popsinto its hole with a chirp. The Prairie Dog is largerthan the Striped Gopher, appearing somewhat like asmall Woodchuck. It utters a sharp chirp, called bark-
Size: 2497px × 1001px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectzoology, bookyear1895
