Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . etch is based on numerous notesmade at different times. 2. Until the weather became fairly settled, and reallyspring-like in temperature, these little chipmunks did notfrequently show themselves, and then only in the middleof the day. The occurrence of a cold storm they appearedto foretell by twenty-four hours, and resumed their hiber-nating sleep, becoming lethargic, and very difficult to re-store to consciousness. A pair that we dug out in March,having two days before re-entered their winter q
Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . etch is based on numerous notesmade at different times. 2. Until the weather became fairly settled, and reallyspring-like in temperature, these little chipmunks did notfrequently show themselves, and then only in the middleof the day. The occurrence of a cold storm they appearedto foretell by twenty-four hours, and resumed their hiber-nating sleep, becoming lethargic, and very difficult to re-store to consciousness. A pair that we dug out in March,having two days before re-entered their winter quarters andbecome again torpid, were apparently lifeless when firsttaken up in the hands, and not until after several hourswarming did they become lively and altogether themselvesagain. This seemed to us the more curious, in that theycan respond to a favorable change in the weather in a short OUR FOUR-FOOTED NEIGHBORS. 311 time, even when the thermometric change is really but afew degrees. 3. On the 3d of May a pair made their appearance inthe yard of our residence, and took up their abode in a. BPfi American Chipmunk. stone wall having a southern outlook, and on the edge ofa steep descent of seventy feet, which bill-side is thicklywooded, and harbors scores of these little chipmunks, or 312 NATURAL HISTORY RE AD EH. •ground-squirrels, as they are more commonly the fact of these little animals living wholly under-ground, and it being stated that their underground homeswere quite elaborate in structure, we determined to waituntil the pair in our yard had completed their excavationsin and under the stone wall and arranged their nest, whichtime we judged by their actions, and then seeking out thehome of another couple, which was readily accessible, weundertook to expose the nest and its approaches. This wedid on May 29th. 4. The nest contained five young, not more than forty-eight hours old. The two entrances were at the foot ofa large beech-tree standing about six f
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