. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 1249 Flying squirrel The little flying squirrels, only nine inches long, are quite unlike the other squirrels. They have what none of the others have — broad, furry membranes connecting their front and hind legs. With their beauti- ful bright eyes, their drab backs somewhat shaded with russet, and their white under parts, they a
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 1249 Flying squirrel The little flying squirrels, only nine inches long, are quite unlike the other squirrels. They have what none of the others have — broad, furry membranes connecting their front and hind legs. With their beauti- ful bright eyes, their drab backs somewhat shaded with russet, and their white under parts, they are as dainty animals as one could wish to see. They live on nuts, seeds, and buds, and also on beetles and perhaps other insects. Occasionally they eat flesh. Their nests are in hollow trees, often in deserted woodpeckers' holes. Here several of them often live together, and they may be aroused easily and driven out by hammering on the tree trunk. In accordance with their nocturnal habits they come out just at nightfall, climb to the top of a tree, and sail to the foot of another tree perhaps fifty yards away. Then, climbing this tree, they glide to another. They live in seclusion during the severest weather, but it is not known that they regularly hibernate. The young, numbering from three to six, are bom early in April. Chipmunk The chipmunks are ten inches in length and reddish or yellowish brown in color, with five black and two whitish stripes down their backs. They- are very fond of nuts, preferring beechnuts; but they will eat roots, com, and other grain, and the larvae of certain insects. They put away large stores in their burrows, for they stay in winter quarters from the middle of November until March or April. Sometimes they come out and look around on a bright winter day. From one nest occupied by four chip- munks there was once taken a quart of beaked hazelnuts, a peck of acorns, some Indian com, two quarts of buckwheat, and a very small quantity of grass seeds.
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