. Wild neighbors: out-door studies in the United States. Animal behavior. 30 WILD NEIGHBORS Note.—An abundance of instructive and cnlcrlaining reading on squirrels is open to one who cares to study them further. A general guide will be found in Stone and Cram's " American Animals," with a list of books and scientific papers relating to their classification, structure, etc.; another list of books is contained in the Appendix to my " Life of Mammals," which also furnishes, in its chapter on the Rodents, a sketch of the squirrel tribe generally, showing the relation between ou
. Wild neighbors: out-door studies in the United States. Animal behavior. 30 WILD NEIGHBORS Note.—An abundance of instructive and cnlcrlaining reading on squirrels is open to one who cares to study them further. A general guide will be found in Stone and Cram's " American Animals," with a list of books and scientific papers relating to their classification, structure, etc.; another list of books is contained in the Appendix to my " Life of Mammals," which also furnishes, in its chapter on the Rodents, a sketch of the squirrel tribe generally, showing the relation between our own and foreign species. Very full histories of eastern and southern squirrels are to be read in Auduljon and Bach- man's great " Quadrupeds of North America," and in Mer- riam's " IWammals of the ; The " Journals" of Thoreau, and the various books by Seton, Sharp, Abbott, Blatchley, Lottridge, Cram (" Little Beasts of Field and Wood"), and similar writers, include much pleasant informa- tion upon these animals. A collection of essays by John Burroughs is entitled " Squirrels "; and " A Quintette of Gray- coats," by EfBe Bignell, is a story of squirrel life in a village garden. An explanation of the origin and value of the food- storing habit may be read in my book " The Wit of the Wild.'. A {<E0 SqUIdRBI.,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd
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