. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . which stateit becomes playful and fond of a low-set, clumsy animal, and whenthe retreat to his bole is cut off, he willboldly face a dog in battle, and is fully amatch for one of his own size. His bite,with his long and projecting incisors, isvery severe. The female produces fromfour to six at a litter. The weight of aWoodchuck of the largest size in Ver-mont when fat is 10 or 11 pounds. Itsflesh is sometimes eaten, but is not muchesteemed. Sometimes called G
. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . which stateit becomes playful and fond of a low-set, clumsy animal, and whenthe retreat to his bole is cut off, he willboldly face a dog in battle, and is fully amatch for one of his own size. His bite,with his long and projecting incisors, isvery severe. The female produces fromfour to six at a litter. The weight of aWoodchuck of the largest size in Ver-mont when fat is 10 or 11 pounds. Itsflesh is sometimes eaten, but is not muchesteemed. Sometimes called Ground Hog. Genus Sciukus.— Characters.—Teeth 22—Jncis-ori I no canines, grinders {.-&, The upper in-cisors arc flat in front ami wedge-shape at the ex-Iremity, the. lower are pointed anJ compressedlaterally. The grinders are tuht-icular. B,i,|ysmall and elongated : head small ; ears erect •eyes large ; fore feet wiih four toes and a tubercleinstead of a tlunnli ; hind feet with five long toesall furnished widilnng hooked nail-; tail long amifrequently shaggy; two pectoral and six ventral. THE GRAY SQUIRREL. Sciurus cluereus.——General color, grayabove and white beneath ; sides of thehead and body, and the exterior of the legs,reddish fawn mixed with gray ; inside ofthe legs and thighs bluish white ; taillarge and bushy, composed of hairs mark-ed with zones alternately fawn and black,and tipped with white; ears without pen-cils, rounded and covered with very shorthair; whiskers black, 2£ inches of the specimen before me, fromthe nose to the insertion of the tail, 10inches; tail, (trunk 0£, tuft 2 J 1H inch-es. Weight pound. History.—According to Dr. Williams,the Gray Squirrel was formerly the squirrel i? i Vermont. It is still found in considerable numbersplentifully at present than son ilh of tlcomperl nil, t lessi some of thewell as somenine years, be- xceedingly multiplied, and then,, for several y
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