. Birds and nature . g time, to itsperch. Dr. C. Hart Merriam has well de-scribed the habits of Aberts Squirrel inthe following words: It builds largecovered nests of green pine branches,lined with soft grass, among the limbsof the trees, but also avails itself of holesin the trunks when suitable openingscan be found. As a rule it is unwaryand may be easily approached withinshort gunshot range; but when reallyfrightened it runs swiftly over the lavarocks for a long distance before takingto a tree, often passing over the rootsof many large pines in its flight. Onreaching the tree of its choice,
. Birds and nature . g time, to itsperch. Dr. C. Hart Merriam has well de-scribed the habits of Aberts Squirrel inthe following words: It builds largecovered nests of green pine branches,lined with soft grass, among the limbsof the trees, but also avails itself of holesin the trunks when suitable openingscan be found. As a rule it is unwaryand may be easily approached withinshort gunshot range; but when reallyfrightened it runs swiftly over the lavarocks for a long distance before takingto a tree, often passing over the rootsof many large pines in its flight. Onreaching the tree of its choice, it climbsto the very top, and then, unlike any oth-er squirrel with which I am familiar,crawls out to the small end of a branch,about which it curls and remains mo-tionless. When in this position it is ex-ceedingly difficult to see, though consid-erably larger than our eastern graysquirrel; and even the conspicuous whiteunder side of the bushy tail is so coiledabout the body as to aid in deceiving theobserver. 228 f. FROM COL. CHt. ACAD. SCIENCes. 575 COfYRlQHT 1903, I MFOnO, CHICA6Q. ABERTS SQUIRREL. (Sciurus aberti). About /(i Life-size. mmmmmmmmmmm i SOME STRANGE CREATURES. A little animal found in SouthernAmerica, and bearing the name of liron,has almost all the characteristics of thesarig-ua, only that it is amphibious. It ison that account that it is called the littlewaterdog. It is a lovely little animal thatlives in the rivers and pools. Its skin iscovered with short hair, very soft and ofextraordinary beauty. Its color is whiteand black, so disposed, that beginningwith the head, it forms a ribbon of blackhair which shows itself in the shape of asemi-circle, and then at the distance oftwo fingers forms another, then a thirdand a fourth, etc. As its radii are blackon a white ground, they contribute verymuch to the beauty of the animal. Itslittle head is like that of a dormouse,with the whiskers of a cat. Its feet arewebbed; its tail is very striking, and en-tirely witho
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